On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 05:28:32PM -0500, Erik LaBianca wrote: > I've got a pair of identical production Xeon SMP webservers running FC1, > Apache2, PHP, Postfix and a stack of custom userland software. In the > last 2 months, uptime has steadily been decreasing, until last week I > couldn't get the main machine to stay up for longer than 8 hours at a > time. I moved the system to the twin machine, and it was crashed the > next morning. I've as of yet been unable to get any sort of useful > messages in syslog or out my console port. > > So I finally broke down and built up a vanilla 2.4.25 kernel using the > i686-smp config file, installed it, and the machine has been stable for > a week. > > What's wrong with the fedora kernel, and how can I track it down? There have been a lot of threads about the stability of the FC1 SMP kernel on this list. Most point to these bugzillas: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109962 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109497 I doubt this problem will be fixed. It's been around a long time and there are now some shiny new toys (2.6 kernel) to distract the kernel developers. -- Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia norm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412 http://turing.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
