[lug] strange kernel happenings...

[Nate Duehr]

I may have found it.  (That or it's cooler in the rack... heh heh.)

I have exim kick off a perl script that pipes mail to SpamAssasin.  When
that perl script was reconfigured NOT to pipe its error output back to
exim, the machine settled down.  Hmmmmm...

Guess I'll go digging in the perl stuff to see what it's doing.  :-)

Or just wait and see if it's stable for a while...

Thanks for all the ideas.  If it crops up again, I'll try the massive
kernel rebuild idea... that would definitely make it a very busy box,
but at least it wouldn't be totally off-line. 

Nate, nate at natetech.com

On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 18:44, D. Stimits wrote:

> If you can afford to load it down (both cpu and filesystem), then doing 
> a batch automated kernel build and clean, one after the other, for about 
> 5 kernels, you might be able to test that way. If during a build you get 
> a signal 11, or some other behavior similar to that, then you can put 
> 95% faith into bad ram or some other component overheat.