Re: Random system crashes
Michael Eager <[email protected]>
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On 04/26/2018 10:39 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 10:29:41AM -0700, Michael Eager wrote: >> On 04/26/2018 10:03 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: >>> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 09:42:42AM -0700, Michael Eager wrote: >>>> I have a server which periodically freezes and becomes unresponsive. >>>> The system is AMD FX-8320, 32Gb, CentOS 7, kernel-4.15. >>>> >>>> There is nothing in the system log which indicates any problem. >>>> The freezes appear to be random and happen when the system is >>>> heavily loaded and when it is idle. Even when heavily loaded, >>>> system temperature seems reasonable. >>> >>> Does it come back without intervention after the freeze, or does >>> it die and need a reboot or power-cycle? >> >> Never recovers. I have to reset or power-cycle. > > If it only happened under heavy load, I would guess a power > supply problem. I thought the same. I may have replaced the PSU, not sure I recall. > Sadly, I think you have a serious hardware fault in the motherboard or > CPU. Sorry. I may put the system on the workbench and throw a heat gun at it to see if something starts to fail consitently. > Diagnosis: let it run for N hours with a CPU exerciser like > stress-ng, set to thrash the CPU but not memory or disk. I'll give that a try. > > Semi-good news: you can replace both of them for around $250 at > NewEgg. No problem that throwing more money at won't fix. :-( -- Michael Eager [email protected] 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306