[rhn-users] RHEL4 freeze

[Riley, Liz (ACHE)]

Stupid as it sounds, try a different network card (if you can)

We had a number of issues with network cards at a previous company where it was almost like the driver  counted so many packets and then stopped.. It would do just what you're experiencing, and in some cases when copying the large files a corrupted file would appear, but the network connectivity appeared to continue.

We found swapping the card with an equally working one in another machine both would work..

-----Original Message-----
From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Honti Balázs
Sent: 14 December 2005 02:37
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Cc: redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com; nahant-list at redhat.com; rhn-users at redhat.com
Subject: [rhn-users] RHEL4 freeze

Hello! I have a serious problem. Our RHEL 4 system hangs unexpectedly, and before, every time, while copying "big" files over scp to it, that were more than 100MB, or some time when more. I thought the problem is over, when it managed to transfer 7GB, and run for about a week without any problems, but came back, just suddenly, without the copy, or doing anything special then.
I watched the logs and the console, but there were no signs of error messages, even the System Request keys don't work, just reboot, what I can do then. The packages are upgraded to the latest version, the machine runs the SMP kernel, PIII, 2 processors. Anyone seen something like this? Or any idea or advice?

It would be very good, to have this server stabilized, soon.

Thanks, in advance, for any help,
Balázs


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