Ok, I give up...
David Edwards (gecker@offbeatmedia.com)
Sun, 19 Dec 1999 01:53:56 -0800
About 2 months ago, I moved all of my servers ( 15 of them) to the 2.2.x
kernels. Some were clean installs of RH 6.0, some were upgrades to RH
5.2. But all of these servers ran 2.0.35 and 2.0.36 with 100+ days of
uptime and were rock solid. But since moving to the 2.2 kernels on the
same hardware, reliability and uptime sucks. Seems like I can rarely get a
month of uptime with the 2.2 kernels, and I've tried everything from 2.2.5
to 2.2.14pre13. The few oopses I've had have been traced back to buggy
hardware that has since been replaced. But in most every case with the 2.2
kernels, the servers (mainly serving web pages) run for a few days to a
week and then lock up completely. Then it requires a power cycle to bring
it back to life.
So I'm stumped. When a system locks up I don't get any console messages or
anything in syslog. Since all of these servers ran 2.0.x kernels and were
very stable for months, I'm inclined to think the hardware is fine. So any
clues as to how I might track this down? I'd hate to say it (flame jacket
on) but my NT and freeBSD boxes are putting Linux to shame in terms of
stability....
David
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