Re: [cobalt-users] daily processes hang with STAT D (was: How many sites on a Cobalt Raq550)

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Csaba Albert wrote:
>
> I have a RaQ4 - 512, wich almost daily gets processes
> stuck with STAT D, and the only way to get rid of them
> is to reboot. The last time happend an hour ago, when
> I shut down all services (named, httpd, admserv,
> mailscanner, inetd) to perform a backup via cmuExport
> (2.43).
> All went fine till the 26th site, a small 2MB site,
> after which the cmu was just hanging. After opening
> another SSH session, I found 2 processes with STAT D
> (scanout and md5sum), cpu temp. normal (about 37-38)
> and a load of 2. Had to reboot, could not kill
> processes. Is there a some kind of fix/workaround not
> to get STAT D processes so often? Or just sit close
> and reboot often?

Sounds like it may be a RAM problem....
I think there is a RAM test script somewhere.

Since you have 512MB, maybe 2 x 256MB
Try removing one, run the troublesome process,
if it still goes into 'stat d' run with the other RAM.

Gerald
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