I once had a machine that, if you ran the memory test continuously, it would succeed for about 6 hours, fail once then go for hours again before falling.
Bulging our leaking capacitors are another good bet as Jay says. Those are prime suspects, particularly if a piece of equipment works fine in a rack for years then fails after you turn it off and back on. Bests, Paul. Sent from my mobile device. Please excuse my brevity and any typos. <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Leo <[email protected]> </div><div>Date:13/05/2015 23:42 (GMT+00:00) </div><div>To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List <[email protected]> </div><div>Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Dead server </div><div> </div>On 20/02/15 22:12, Samuel Penn wrote: > On Friday 20 Feb 2015 21:27:46 Leo wrote: >> I noticed today that my headless server stopped responding so I had to >> reboot it. However all I can tell is that the logs appear to have >> stopped recording anything from about mid-afternoon yesterday. Is there >> anywhere else I can look to see what might have happened? > > I was getting that recently. Turned out to be disc errors. > So, a very late follow up to this: I tested the disks using fsck and smart, and found no problems. So I ignored the problem. However, in the last week it has since frozen twice again. So I ram memtest. The first time it reported some errors. The second time, it didn't report any. Has anyone had any experience of failed memory: is it possible to pass and fail, or once failing will it always fail? Thanks, Leo PS I'm now running an mprime torture test to see what that throws up. -- Please post to: [email protected] Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
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