Re: random system crashes

Kernel development is a tough thing (i know, i wrote some features for tux),
so if only one person develops it, it is endeed a problem. from what you
say, if thttpd is satisfying for you, then you probably do not need tux. but
believe it or not, i have tried thttpd on my servers, and it just doesn't
cut it after a certain load, so tux was a savier for me.

and tux works well, unless you do something it wasn't designed for (like
serving over nfs or something like this).

----- Original Message -----
From: "William R Thomas" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: random system crashes


> What filesystem are you running?  Myself and at least one other person
> have had problems that sound very similar to this, and the only
> unifying thing that we could come up with was using reiserfs.  I have
> no knowledge if anyone has a stable TUX setup running on reiserfs, so
> the filesystem thing is just a guess.
>
> Eventually after not being able to get more stability out of a new
> server than a windows 95 box, we turned off TUX, turned back on
> THTTPD, and strangely no longer crash our server every other day.
>
> I have never gotten a response from the list with any assistance, and
> it seems like the general attitude on here is, "Why don't you write a
> patch and maybe it will get added in."  The primary developer hasn't
> said anything on the list that I have noticed in many months.  No
> redhat employee I have seen has said anything on the list since he
> last spoke up.  There were rumors to the affect that the development
> effort is being placed into newer kernel strains, god forbid someone
> would want to run a server off a stable kernel.
>
> As you can tell, I am a bit jaded over my experiences with Tux.  On
> the surface it seemed awesome.  In practice it was like a formula one
> car hitting a wall, i.e. damn did it go fast and in a blaze of glory.
>
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 03:38:40PM +0200, Marco Rothley wrote:
> > Hello all!
> >
> > I have a big problem with one of my webservers which is running TUX. I
don't
> > know if TUX is the reason for that but the system crashes from time to
time
> > and there is nothing special with it except the TUX.
> > The crashes are a little uncommon: The system reacts on nothing but
ping. Even
> > the local console isn't responding but the ping-timing is low as under
usual
> > operation. There is nothing in the logfiles that points to a problem.
They
> > just stop and the next messages I see are the bootup messages of the
kernel
> > (after reboot). One time I just had top running on the machine as it
crashed
> > and I saw nothing special: Enough free memory, no high load and over 50%
idle
> > time on the two CPUs, etc.. And from one moment to the other it was
frozen.
> > I just thought someone could have similar problems and have a solution.
The
> > hardware was completely replaced by the hoster but the problem persists.
Just
> > the HD stayed the same but the RAID-Controller reported no failures. So
I
> > think it's not a hardware problem.
> >
> > The system is a dual P3 with 1.266 GHz, 1GB ECC-SDRAM from IBM (x330)
with a
> > SCSI RAID-Controller and 2x36GB IBM SCSI disks.
> >
> > The kernel Version is 2.4.18 with TUX 2.2.7. I don't know if there's any
other
> > patch in the kernel. I have Apache as "backend" server.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Marco.
> >
> >
> >
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