Server Crash

[Boulytchev, Vasiliy]

This server is doing MASSIVE loads of mail.  This server is really being
worked by spam and virus filtering, and just large loads of email.  I am
thinking its more of a kernel/raid controller driver issue.........  That's
my thought.  Maybe the enterprise kernel I am running, was not compiled with
the right driver.........  That just makes more sense, because people are
reporting problems with MD 9.2, and saying that redhat is fine. 


Vasiliy Boulytchev
Colorado Information Technologies, Inc.
http://www.coinfotech.com

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Of Chris Stone
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 9:54 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Server Crash

That one is running RedHat 9 - 2.4.20-30.9 smp kernel. What are you running?

Have sendmail, MailScanner, MySQL and Apache running on the box. Apache is
for the MailWatch interface and gets very little use (me only really), and
MySQL only for the MailWatch hooks. So, other than that little bit, sendmail
and MailScanner are really the only things doing anything on the box - which
does have a pretty steady flow of messages, but not huge amounts - running
about 5000/day at present.


Chris Stone
High Mountain Software
www.hms.com
 

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Aha!   Im not the only one :)))

What OS are you running? 


Vasiliy Boulytchev
Colorado Information Technologies, Inc.
http://www.coinfotech.com

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Had a similar problem this morning for the first time on a new server that
has been running for a couple weeks now without issue. Console screen clean,
syslog shows nothing. But checking the log entry timestamps at 00:41 this
morning it all died. Could ping the server but that's it. Telneting to port
25 did make a connection, but no banner from sendmail.


Chris Stone
High Mountain Software
www.hms.com

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Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 9:34 AM
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NO!  Nothing on console/syslog :(

Ho Hard Drive activity either.   NICs are still going wild.  Not able to
communicate with the server period.


Vasiliy Boulytchev
Colorado Information Technologies, Inc.
http://www.coinfotech.com

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Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 9:13 AM
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Subject: Re: Server Crash


Boulytchev, Vasiliy wrote:
> Ladies and Gents,
>       Hopefully everyone can participate on this discussion. One of
our
> production servers keeps crashing on a random basis.

Could you clarify what you mean by 'crashes'.  Completely unresponsive?
anything on the console?  syslog?



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