MailScanner lock up Problem

[Martin.Hepworth]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Paul Kelly :: Blacknight
> Solutions
> Sent: 10 September 2007 16:59
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: MailScanner lock up Problem
>
> Glenn Steen wrote:
> > On 07/09/2007, Paul Kelly :: Blacknight Solutions <paul at blacknight.ie>
> wrote:
> >> Steve Freegard wrote:
> >>
> >>> By the looks of the strace - my gut tells me that the problem is
> related
> >>> to syslog.  Hopefully that might point you in the right direction.
> >>>
> >>> Also - make sure that 'nscd' isn't running as that's caused me no end
> of
> >>> trouble in the past with similar symptoms.
> >> Syslog you say. Hmmmm. No joy on that front. Also don't have nscd
> enabled.
> >>
> >> Paul
> >
> > The obvious questions are: What did you change, prior to the problems
> > starting? Do you monitor your HW with something like SMART
> > capabilities etc? Anything like that indicating a failing drive? How a
> > bout controller/RAM/etc etc?
> >
> > Unfortunately, SW have to run on HW... and HW can fail in the most ...
> > interesting... ways:-)
> >
>
> Turns out it was a rather interesting file system issue. I had to visit
> the machine in the data centre in the wee hours of Saturday morning
> (damn I hate being on-call) and perform open heart surgery on the file
> systems.
>
> We're doing a mix of Raid 1 + LVM on top of it and a power cycle of the
> machine during the previous few days caused some oddness with /var. This
> I believe was causing MS to die silently.
>
> It's been "ok" since. /me touches wood
>
> --
> Paul Kelly

Paul

Well I told you ext3 was crud ;-)

--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300





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