Server rebooting itself

[Robin Vleij]

Don O'Neil wrote:

Don,

> This happens randomly every 3-20 days (no apparent pattern). 
> Any suggestions on what to check next? 

As other wrote: it can be anything. I had a similair problem and it 
almost drove me mad. It was a webhosting machine running 5.4, later 6.1 
and up. The machine was running Cpanel, a webhosting panel.
I've tried everything (memory testing, stress testing, etc etc): kept 
rebooting. Just when I was at the point of actually stopping my 
webhosting business (I just have that as a hobby), I swapped the dual 
Xeon Supermicro that was giving problems with a really old dual P3 Dell 
1650. It's been running stable since then. Stable but slow. :)

Same for my backup machine, which was a self-built Dual Athlon MP (well, 
built by a computer supplier). Swapped that for an old dual P4 Dell 2550 
and: all is fine.

Doesn't help you much, except if you have some old Dell hardware laying 
around. :)

/Robin

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