FC-1 died mysterious several times a week

[Andrew Robinson]

Guolin Cheng wrote:
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>  It is quite strange that my FC-1 Box died mysteriously several times a week. now it died again. I can ping it from other host, and nmap it without issues, but when I try to ssh to it, or access it by means of nfs, I got no response.
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>  The machine box is a HP workstation xw4100, 2x4G CPU, 4G memory, 4x250GB SATA drives(two connected by means of Intel ICH5 on mothboard, 2 by means of Promise RAID S150 TX4), the kernel is upgraded 2.4.22-1-ntpl-2174smp.
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>  I can not find errors in /var/log/messages. I have been trying to install a model FC-1 machine to replace our existing RH8.0/9.0 since the latter has no suuport soon. sigh...
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>  any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
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I have had similar problemss. It turned out that I was filling up my 
root  partition. I initially configured my system with one partition for 
swap and one for a monolithic filesystem. I moved /var and /usr/share to 
partitions with more space, and my system stopped freezing.

I never actually caught the system in the act of filling up the root 
filesystem. I deduced the problem from available clues and experience 
with other *nixes. Like you, there were no errors in /var/log/messages. 
The "df" command showed my root filesystem usage in the mid-90 percent 
range. Apparently after I rebooted the system, something was cleared out 
of /var or /tmp to bring the utilization back below 100%.

I don't know if this is your problem, but it might be worth checking out.

HTH,

Andrew Robinson