Re: Tux serving graphics only

Am Dienstag, 26. August 2003 22:32 schrieb Chris Davies:
> looking at where the kernel was built -- what's the possibility of using
> a slightly more recent kernel?

Yes I know, I _should_ use a newer one solely because of security issues. But, 
you know, the box does quite well since the logging is disabled... The 
problem is that I am not physically at the box and a don't have a chance to 
select a different kernel to boot when the new one isn't booting. OK, it's a 
managed service and a can get somebody at the machine to help me, but as long 
as everything is running well, I don't wan't to do it. But if I would know 
that a new TUX version and/or a newer kernel version would cure my problems I 
would install a newly build kernel right now...

I don't have a test server which I can use to get more information. I once 
tried it with a machine a had here and some clients which made requests with 
the "ab" program from the apache distribution and copied some big files from 
parition to partition and so on but was not able to trigger the hang. We all 
noticed that the machine is still responding on pings when the hang occurs. 
So it seems to be a kind of kernel deadlock with the filesystem but the 
kernel still response to hardware irqs (e.g. from the NIC). I don't know that 
much about the kernel so I can't exactly figure out what's happening. If I 
would only have more time to learn and to test...

Marco Rothley

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