From: David M. Wilson (dw_at_botanicus.net)
Date: Wed 14 May 2003 - 18:29:15 BST
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 06:31:23PM +0200, Thomas Hug wrote:
> hi john
>
> On Wed, 14 May 2003 09:24, John Goerzen wrote:
>
> > I have upgraded to 2.4.20ctx-17, hoping that this would solve our
> > problems. Alas, it has not. Our server went down again today, this
> > time with absolutely no console messages whatsoever (our console is
> > now on the serial port and logged -- and nothing there.) Magic SysRq
> > was useless.
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas? Is there any more recent patch that we
> > should be using?
>
> are you sure that your hardware is ok? i'm just coming from the server
> room where i bootet a machine with some virtual memory blabal failure.
> the same machine as i booted last friday with the same screen output.
>
> another server had similar problems. as i changed cpu/ram/mainboard, the
> problems were gone...
RAM/CPU is my first choice when random crashing occurs, followed by
motherboard then PSU. Hope that helps.
David.