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[Christian Klippel <ck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi alejandro,

do you have 2 processors installed on this box ??
if not, an smp kernel can cause problems with only one cpu.
i had a similar experience on a dual machine, with only one cpu but
using a smp kernel. the machine crashed/rebooted periodically.
also,  check for memory leaks. do you have programs that will be
started periodically ?? maybe these programs dont free all the mem
they used, so the memory can overflow. for example, if you send the
apache server a SIGHUP while some connections are open, some
child processes stay dead in memory. after a week or so the machine
crashes (happened on one of my machines)

greets,

chris

Am Mittwoch, 17. Oktober 2001 14:02 schrieb Alejandro Ortega Páez:
> Hi all!
>
> 	this is my first appearance at SuSE help Mail list.
>
> 	I am very worried about self-~rebooting by one of our servers
> (our qmail- Pop server). I have watching all logs and I have not found
> anything strange or can be called "dangerous".
>
> 	But this very machine has had some problems from the beginning:
> I could not install reiserfs as file system; I had to choose to format
> as ext2; and today, without any notice, has rebooted by itself and
> in check mode.
>
> 	This machine is a Dell with MegaRaid, SCSI Controller MegaRaid,
> UW2 SCSI H.D, two net cards, and Intel PIII 866.
>
> 	Do you find any reason why this self-~rebooting has been made?
>
> 	It can be due to a hardware failure or a software one?
>
> 	Ah! Kernel version is 2.2.19-~SMP.
>
> 	I would thank you very much if you can help me.
>
> 	Alejandro Ortega.

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