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Re: Random lockups using woody/sid (cron related?)



On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:43:20AM -0500, Jason Ruiter wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I've been having a strange problem with a machine running a combination
> of woody and sid (mostly woody with some sid packages).  Every morning,
> around 06:00, the machine locks.  X locks, I can't get a console with
> control-alt-f1, I can't ssh in.  I *can* ping the machine in question.
> 
> Since this seems to be a periodic event, I suspected the daily cron
> jobs.  I ran each job individually, and was not able to duplicate the
> problem.
> 
> I have 5 other machines with identical hardware running the same kernel
> image on woody that don't exhibit the problem.
> 
> Is anyone else having these period lockups (usually once per day).
> 
> My next step is to downgrade the problem machine to woody and see what
> happens.
> 
> 
> Details:
> 
> SuperMicro Dual P4 Xeon 2.4 Ghz, 1GB RAM, 18GB SCSI drives.
> 2.4.19 openMosix kernel.  (Yeah, I suspected this, but the identical
> kernel runs fine on 5 other machines with identical hardware running 
> woody)

Woah...maybe it's a heat thing?  A whole bunch of cron jobs fire off
around 6am, which could cause the temperature to rise enough to cause
trouble...

-rob

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