6.x hangs on AMD64 again

[Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T]

On 11/11/06, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 11:15:54AM -0800, Chris wrote:
> > >
> > >If your system is hanging then you need to configure additional
> > >debugging to figure out the cause.  Read the chapter on kernel
> > >debugging the developers handbook; without this information no
> > >developer can help you.
> > >
> > >Kris
> > >
> > >P.S. In my testing SMP amd64 is quite stable even under exceptionally
> > >heavy loads, so it's either something related to your hardware or your
> > >particular workload.
> >
> > Hadn't considered that a user level debugging solution. I'll give it
> > a try.
> >
> > We had considered it possibly related to our mix because the SuperMicro
> > dual xeon we are trying to replace it with was rebooting (not hanging)
> > without any error messages every 15-20 days. I thought it was failing
> > hardware. It's on 6.1 R P10. Maybe related in some way.
>
> That is indeed almost always failing hardware.
>
> Kris
>
>
>

I had a similiar issue of rebooting or more specifically shutting
down.  The BIOS would also loose it's config.  After some hardware
swapping it turned out to be the power supply.

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Jeff Hinrichs
Dundee Media & Technology, Inc
jeffh at dundeemt.com