server unresponsive after several days

[Andrew Bacchi]

I agree that you should make certain to update all packages, first. 
Look to see if you have a disk partition filling up.  There was a 
problem in RH AS 3 with the audit daemon writing numerous logs and 
filling the /var partition.  This eventually crashed the machine.


cleger at scs.carleton.ca wrote:
> Greetings list, 
> 
> I have a server that serves (pun inevitable) as storage array on my network.
> This machine works fine, except for the strange fact that, a few days after
> booting up, the machine, while still on, stops responding to pings, to keyboard
> input, to ssh requests, and anything else I can throw at it. 
> 
> Would anyone like to suggest a troubleshooting approach to this? Has anyone
> heard of any such thing happening? The OS is Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release
> 4 (Nahant Update 3). Is this, in your experience, more likely to happen due to
> the hardware being wonky, or the OS having some bug? 
> 
> Thanks in advance, 
> 
> Christian Leger
> 

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Andrew Bacchi
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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