On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 11:06:23AM +0200, Gebhardt Thomas wrote: > Hi, > > we have about 60 opteron servers running sarge amd64 with a > 2.6.20.3 vanilla kernel (previously they were running 2.6.18.1; > I installed the newer kernel in the hope that the problem would disappear). > > At a rate of about 1-2 per week the SATA disk in a server freezes and > I have to reboot. Because of the statistical nature of the effect (and since > smartctl -a doesn't display any errors) I conclude that this is not a hardware > issue but a software problem. > > Any idea how to narrow down the problem? > > Thanks, Thomas > this may not turn up anything, but is there any consistency in when these events happen? are there any cron or routine tasks that happen at these times?> hth -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |_______ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed _______|
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