Hi all,
I set up a new system (basically a file server) with FC3 that runs very well. Except that it freezes after a few hours of operations - sometimes it even runs a few days. I know, this looks like a temperature problem, but this can safely be ruled out.
The console doesn't print any message before crashing - no kernel panics, no other error messages. It just silently freezes and doesn't react to the keyboard or anything else anymore.
The problem seems to be linked to hard disk accesses. If the server reads or stores a lot of data (large files or many files) then it is likely that it freezes few minutes later. (How stable is LVM2?)
I don't expect you to find out what the cause of this problem is (with these few informations that I can give you here). But can anybody give me a hint, where to look (logs, messages, ...) to get an idea, what makes the system freeze?
Thanks for any hint
Cheers
Rolf
PS: Here's my setup:
- Via EPIA 800 Mainboard (Via C3 processor at 800MHz)
- two PATA Maxtor Disks, 200GB and 120GB
- hda1 (10GB, ext3) for system
- hda2 (1GB) swap
- hda3 (189GB) LVM physical volume PV1
- hdc1 (120GB) LVM physical volume PV2
PV1+PV2 build logical volume which is mounted on /home
- DVD-Rom (hdb)
And yes, the same system (but without 200GB HD and without LVM) was running on RedHat 7.3 for 2 years without a single crash! Do I really have to downgrade again?