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

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Gerald Waugh wrote:

> 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.

This one was for RaQ3/4 not sure if it will run on a 550
Surely it won't install from a pkg?

ftp://ftp-eng.cobalt.com/pub/experimental/pkg/Cobalt-Allx86-MemoryTester-1.0.pkg
Maybe you can take it apart and find the RPM.

> 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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