server unresponsive after several days

[Herta Van den Eynde]

On 27/03/07, cleger at scs.carleton.ca <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

What hardware are you using?  Any firmware upgrades available for your NICs?

Kind regards,

Herta