Re: Linux crashes

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On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:28:25PM +1100 Tony Langdon said:
> At 09:19 PM 10/03/2005, you wrote:
> 
> >can anyone help with a server problem I'm having? It's been crashing every 
> >2
> >days for no apparent reason. I've been recording free -m an w stats every
> >minute of the day using a cron to see if they spike around the time of the
> >crash, but there's always plenty of ram available. I have a feeling it may
> >be overheating or some other hardware related issue, but I cannot install
> >the acpi temperature module. It's linux server running Redhat Linux Fedora
> >1, 2.8 gig processor with 2 gig ram. Not sure what else you might need as
> >far as specs go.
> >
> >It's located at the ASX but I have remote SSH access, anyone willing to
> >troubleshoot for a modest fee?
> 
> What's the symptoms of the crash?  Locks up?  kernel panic?  Also when 
> rebooting it, worth looking in the BIOS diagnostics at the temperature of 
> the processor. 

Friend of mine had this happen a few days back. He found that the
processor fan on the box had died.

Sam
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