Re: Random reboots

Erik Mouw
2006-02-14T08:54:51Z

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 04:49:57PM -0500, Ryan Richter wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 04:39:29PM -0500, ryan wrote:
> > It runs Debian Sarge for AMD64. I have lots of other machines, but only
> > this one gets the reboots. None of the others have SCSI, and none are
> > dual-CPU with memory on both nodes, just to name two obvious things
> > different on this machine.
>
> Thinking about this some more... My home desktop also is a dual opteron
> with memory on both nodes and SCSI, but it hasn't had any reboots. The
> machine with the reboot trouble uses RAID5+LVM, unlike my desktop. Also
> it's an NFS server, but I have another machine (single-cpu pentium 4, no
> SCSI etc.) that's an NFS server without reboots. But none of the other
> machines have RAID or LVM.

We recently had such an issue with a dual AMD64 machine rebooting at
mke2fs. It turned out it was a faulty power supply. After we changed
the power supply, everything ran smooth again.

You could start to test by powering your drives from an old AT-style
power supply leaving more "juice" for the main board and CPUs.

Erik

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