Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 6 May 1999 13:33:06 +0200 | | From | Pavel Machek <> | | Subject | Re: Linux can't stay up for more than an hour? |
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Hi!
> I'm hammering a Linux machine by placing a high volume > (1,000,000 hits/day, 500,000 CGI hits/day) web site on it. The box can > certainly handle the traffic -- it's a dual Pentium II-400 machine running > on a network with plenty of bandwidth. Yet it dies constantly. I'll > provide as much information as I can in case someone can help point me in > the right direction. > > Kernel: 2.2.6 with SMP > Memory: 128MB > Disks: 9Gig local, 12Gig remote NFS from Irix 6.5.2 and locking on. > knfsd: 981204-1 > > The machine dies so hard that the screen goes black and does > NOTHING. Nothing on the screen, no keyboard input is accepted, no network > access is accepted. When we recycle the machine, it usually won't restart > because of file corruption and we need to get someone to the box and run > fsck on it.
Please try dual Pentium II-400 in _UP_ mode. Problem could go away and machine should be able to sustain that rate. If this does not help, go for 2.0.X UP temporarily.
Pavel PS: If you are not able to sustain rate on UP, I do not think SMP will help. -- The best software in life is free (not shareware)! Pavel GCM d? s-: !g p?:+ au- a--@ w+ v- C++@ UL+++ L++ N++ E++ W--- M- Y- R+
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