Server Crash

[Randal, Phil]

There have been several issues with the aacraid drivers.

You might want to look at the archives of Dell's Linux on PowerEdge list:

  http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge

Cheers,

Phil

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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Boulytchev, Vasiliy
> Sent: 25 March 2004 17:04
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Server Crash
>
>
> 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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> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
> Of Boulytchev, Vasiliy
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 9:52 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Server Crash
>
> Aha!   Im not the only one :)))
>
> What OS are you running?
>
>
> Vasiliy Boulytchev
> Colorado Information Technologies, Inc.
> http://www.coinfotech.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
> Of Chris Stone
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 9:41 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Server Crash
>
>
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
> Of Boulytchev, Vasiliy
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 9:34 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Server Crash
>
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
> Of Spicer, Kevin
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 9:13 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> 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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