Re: Woody server - rebooted itself (twice)

["Tauber, Mathias Mailing" <tauberml@hdpnet.de>]

Hi,

> We have a number of Debian woody servers, mostly Intel kit. One of our 
> P4 boxen decided to reboot itself twice over the weekend. last -x:
>
> runlevel (to lvl 2)   2.4.20           Sat Jun 12 08:04 - 10:12 (1+02:07)
> reboot   system boot  2.4.20           Sat Jun 12 08:04         (1+02:07)
> shutdown system down  2.4.20           Sat Jun 12 07:50 - 10:12 (1+02:22)
> runlevel (to lvl 6)   2.4.20           Sat Jun 12 07:49 - 07:50  (00:00)
>
> No previous logins within hours of this. syslog shows eth0 ran out of 
> resources, followed by a regular cronjob (very memory intensive), 
> followed by out of memory errors, then a switch to runlevel 6.

how much RAM and how much SWAP do you have?
How about spave on /tmp and the other partitions?


> Kernel may have bugs, but its been running otherwise fine for months. I 
> wonder what may cause the kernel to switch to level 6 without user 
> intervention?

Which bugs? Which filesystem do you use?


Regards,
Mathias