Il 08/02/2011 15:11, Stan Hoeppner ha scritto:
>> I am currently running squeeze 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem. The machine has
>
> Why run the 32bit distro with the bigmem kernel on an AMD64 box? And why run
> the bigmem kernel on a machine with only 1 GB RAM? The bigmem kernel is only
> needed for PAE, which means machines with more than 3GB (IIRC) of RAM. Anyway,
> you should always use the AMD64 kernel on supported CPUs as you get better
> overall performance.
I installed the 32bit OS because the 64bit ones i tried were crashing
miserably. I know i shouldnt be using the 32bit bigmem kernel, but it
was the default when i installed lenny using the preconfigured images
from the datacenter. I guess i could easily switch to the default
kernel, though.
how were you able to install the os on a hosted server?
>> 1024MB of ram and 2x160Gb Sata HDDs. The NIC is a 100MBit realtek one,
>> with proper drivers from the firmware-realtek debian package.
>
>> I would love to have some opinions on how to deal with this.
>
> First thing I would do is completely disable all power saving features in the
> system BIOS, the kernel, and user space. If you still get the freezes, replace
> hardware.
As i don't have physical access to the machine, i can't play around with
the bios. On topics about similar issues i saw replies close to this
one you gave me, but i don't really know which direction i should take
in order to "disable powersaving". Should i look for hardware specific
stuff (like cpu frequency scaling which is directly connected to the CPU
"Cool n Quiet" feature) or should i look for OS configuration? Do you
know where should i look for information on the matter?
Server != VIA. ok, let me not be such an ass :)
i'd get them to run memtest on it, or ask them to plug an ip-kvm up to
it and put memtest in your grub and see what happens. after that fails,
i'd ask for a few months free server for your trouble. that or go ahead
and go elsewhere before you get too deep in with them - if it's messed
up from the start, they should be bending over backward to get you up
and running and make you happy than the other way around.
give them a call. if they don't insist on figuring it out themselves, cancel and go elsewhere.
> The San Diego core is 5 years old, making your server 4-5 years old. Did you
> ever see these system lock ups in the past? If you run straight Lenny with the
> regular i386 kernel (not bigmem) do you get these lock ups?
>
> Is this a brand name server, white box, DIY? If the latter, what motherboard?
It's a low end dedicated server i am renting. I've had it for about a
week now.
.....
I should add that limiting the rtorrent download bandwith to 5MBps has
managed to keep the server up, with all the services running for almost
a day now. The default setting was to limit the bandwith at 12MBps.