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I was running 5. I updated to 6 this morning after it happened again.
It may be a few days before I know if it makes any difference.
Thanks
DC
Blackburn, Marvin wrote:
> what update version are you running. I think this was a problem with 3
> if I remember correctly.
>
>
>> -- --Original Message-- --
>> From: taroon-list-bounces@(protected)
>> [mailto:taroon-list-bounces@(protected)] On Behalf Of D Canfield
>> Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 12:56 PM
>> To: Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)
>> Subject: Re: No logins after several days
>>
>> I'll try to check out kswap the next time, but I don't recall
>> any of the
>> processes looking abnormal, which was so frustrating. The
>> machine is an
>> NFS client (/home is located there). It's also using LDAP
>> for logins.
>> Both of those made me worry that there was a network issue, but when
>> this blocking occurs, I can ping the LDAP and NFS servers
>> just fine, and
>> none of our other 20 boxes that are setup this way (some
>> RHEL3, others
>> RHEL4) have this problem.
>>
>> DC
>>
>> Blackburn, Marvin wrote:
>>
>>> What does the kswapd process look like.
>>> We had similar problems when the kswapd process started
>>>
>> consuming large
>>
>>> amounts of cpu and load would grow till
>>> system locked up. Do you have nfs on this system?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> -- --Original Message-- --
>>>> From: taroon-list-bounces@(protected)
>>>> [mailto:taroon-list-bounces@(protected)] On Behalf Of D Canfield
>>>> Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 12:10 PM
>>>> To: taroon-list@(protected)
>>>> Subject: No logins after several days
>>>>
>>>> We're having a problem with one of our RHEL3 test boxes in
>>>> that after a
>>>> few days, the login system starts hanging. Any established
>>>> ssh sessions
>>>> run fine. Any running processes continue just fine. CPU load
>>>> percentages and iowait displayed via top are nominal, but the load
>>>> number starts growing steadily and it any attempt to login
>>>>
>> via ssh or
>>
>>>> the console accepts the username and password and then
>>>>
>> hangs with no
>>
>>>> further response. A reboot fixes this, but it occurs again
>>>> every few days.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone have any suggestions as to where I can begin to figure
>>>> out what's
>>>> happening? I usually open a few root sessions on the console
>>>> after each
>>>> reboot so that I can poke around once it happens, but I've
>>>>
>> not found
>>
>>>> anything thus far.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> DC
>>>>
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