On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:43:20AM -0500, Jason Ruiter wrote: > Greetings, > > I've been having a strange problem with a machine running a combination > of woody and sid (mostly woody with some sid packages). Every morning, > around 06:00, the machine locks. X locks, I can't get a console with > control-alt-f1, I can't ssh in. I *can* ping the machine in question. > > Since this seems to be a periodic event, I suspected the daily cron > jobs. I ran each job individually, and was not able to duplicate the > problem. > > I have 5 other machines with identical hardware running the same kernel > image on woody that don't exhibit the problem. > > Is anyone else having these period lockups (usually once per day). > > My next step is to downgrade the problem machine to woody and see what > happens. > > > Details: > > SuperMicro Dual P4 Xeon 2.4 Ghz, 1GB RAM, 18GB SCSI drives. > 2.4.19 openMosix kernel. (Yeah, I suspected this, but the identical > kernel runs fine on 5 other machines with identical hardware running > woody)
Woah...maybe it's a heat thing? A whole bunch of cron jobs fire off around 6am, which could cause the temperature to rise enough to cause trouble... -rob
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