On Wednesday 01 April 2009 11:52:11 Fredrik Hansson wrote: > Hi all, > > We have a web server running apache (on OpenBSD 4.4) with php and mysql > from packages. > > This morning it froze and we don't know why. > > The only thing we know is that the load was quite high, see output from > top below. [snip]
The first question is how long has this hardware been in use? If it is an established machine and you've not had problems with it before, I would very much suspect hardware. Freezes like this have happened to me mostly over bad memory. That you are using ECC doesn't rule out the possibility that some of the control logic on a dimm is bad. If memtest86 handles ECC, I'd run it on that hardware for 24 hours and see what happens. Checking all the cables, especially disk might make sense too? --STeve Andre'
