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From: Herbert Poetzl (herbert_at_13thfloor.at)
Date: Mon 17 Nov 2003 - 15:43:16 GMT


On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 06:23:00AM -0500, Matt Ayres wrote:
> I have 2 servers who keep crashing, sometimes every few hours... I am
> still working on a console solution so I don't know the exact place
> where the problem is.

Hi Matt!

> The servers are in a "half hung" state, they respond to PING and will
> open TCP connections, but they won't send any data back.
>
> Is this how yours responds or is it a hard lock?
>
> I've tried with 2.4.22-c17e, 2.4.23pre8-c17h and 2.4.22-vs1.0.0 all with
> the same results.

this is/sounds bad, so we should try to narrow it
down as soon as possible ... the following things
I would suggest, to hunt this down ...

 - make some tests with the hardware
   (memtest86, temperature, cpu-stability)
 - search the log for the following strings
   'APIC', 'NMI', 'ACPI', 'oops', 'panic'
 - enable the nmi watchdog and make sure it
   is active (/proc/interrupts)
 - enable magic sysreq, so you can force
   a stack trace for all running programms
 - look for ERR or MIS counts on a running
   machine in /proc/interrupts
 - you mention 2.4.22-vs1.00, did you add
   any other patches? if so, please try to
   reproduce with plain 2.4.22-vs1.00 ...
 - if this happens with plain 2.4.22-vs1.00,
   please try to reproduce with vanilla
   2.4.22 (I know this his hard on a vserver
   host, but we have to know, it won't help
   to search in vserver code for a 2.4.22
   bug/issue ...
 - when the machine is just hung, try to
   activate the magic sysreq, and dump all
   registers as well as the stack trace for
   the running tasks ...

HTH,
Herbert

> On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 06:00, James MacLean wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > 2 nights in a row at 4:00am when netstat runs, the system is Oopsing. I
> > was running vs1.1.2 and am now upgrading to vs1.1.3 but do not see
> > anything that suggests a fix in in the diffs.
> >
> > Possibly I am the only lucky one :)? I remember this happening some time
> > ago in earlier vservers, and someone new the fix. The Oops was within
> > tcp_get_info if I am reading the System.map correctly.
> >
> > JES
> --
> Matt Ayres <matta_at_tektonic.net>
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