 | | | No logins after several days | No logins after several days 2006-02-13 - By Thom Paine
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I'm in the same boat with two new servers. One older one works without
problems. Mine seems to be with squid and proxy cacheing. I've turned
off squid on the two problem machines and it seems to be okay.
I'll follow his thread and keep you posted.
On 2/11/06, D Canfield <canfield@(protected)> wrote:
> It was on, but we're not using it for anything. I've switched it off
> and we'll see if that helps as well. Thanks for the the suggestion.
>
> DC
>
> bob wrote:
> > i was having the same exact issue, would you be running auditd by any
> > chance ?
> >
> > -bob
> > -- -- Original Message -- -- From: "D Canfield" <canfield@(protected)>
> > To: "Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)"
> > <taroon-list@(protected)>
> > Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 11:56 AM
> > 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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