Hello, i would like to ask for help since i am feeling a bit clueless here.
I recently bought a low end dedicated machine that was supposed to host some services: squid, proftpd and rtorrent. I installed debian lenny and immediately updated to squeeze and configured the services. I started rtorrent but after the machine reaches heavy load ( > 10MBps network traffic, maxed out cpu), it holds for a while then all network connections drop and i have to order a hard reset in order to bring it back online. I thought it was a misconfiguration issue, so i tried reconfiguring the server and installing ubuntu 10.04 on it, but i'm getting the same results. I had a look at /var/log/kernel.log and on ubuntu i am seeing some "Clocksource tsc unstable" messages right before the machine crashes. I can see the same kind of messages on squeeze aswell, just not that close to the reboots as they were on ubuntu. Google tells me they might have something to do with cpu frequency scaling. There's loads of reports by users like me who are experiencing random freezes. Seems though that there is no clear answer: people solved the issue with video card driver updates, replacing bad hardware, changing the frequency scaling governor, and so on. So far i only played around with the frequency scaling governor, setting it to "performance" seems to freeze the machine quicker than with the default "ondemand". Here are the cpu specs of the machine: # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 39 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3700+ stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 2200.000 cache size : 1024 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow up pni lahf_lm bogomips : 4398.97 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors conservative userspace powersave ondemand performance # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies 1000000 1800000 2000000 2200000 # cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource acpi_pm I asked the datacenter support to perform a hardware check and they tested the machine for 8 hours without errors. Now. How can i find out what's going on with this server? I'm pretty sure its faulty hardware, but i have no proof to show to the datacenter support. I am currently running squeeze 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem. The machine has 1024MB of ram and 2x160Gb Sata HDDs. The NIC is a 100MBit realtek one, with proper drivers from the firmware-realtek debian package. I would love to have some opinions on how to deal with this. -- Davide Mirtillo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d51280c.4030...@gmail.com
