[ale] server question

[Sage]

Heyla, all!

We have a server doing a really odd thing. Since November, the time this stupid thing stays up without a reboot is decreasing exponentially. It started off having to reboot every four months, and uptime without a reboot is now about every 6 hours. Last week, we finally had to set a crontab entry to automatically reboot the stupid thing every 24 hours, then every 12, then every 8, and now, every four. (I got a bit ill having to run downtown 4 days in a row) I predict the damn thing won't live through the weekend.

It seems to have an awful lot of mysql processes running when it's up. The mysql version is 3.21.33b. Here lately, we've also been getting kernal panic messages. The kernal version is 2.0.36. (Am I spelling kernal right?) Yes, I know it's as old as hell, should have been upgraded, yadda, yadda, yadda. That would be the client's call, and their option was just to replace the whole box, but they can't seem to locate the people who did the old machine, and we're kind of running out of time.

Question is; has anyone come across a problem like this, and was there a solution? It looks like it may be possible that the mysql processes aren't getting killed after users log out, but I may be wrong.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

-Sage

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