[ale] Debugging lockups on a linux system?

[Jim Lynch]

I had a similar problem last year.  A system had a lot of files.  I mean 
a lot.  And located was running once a day.  This caused the system to 
hang but not every day.  I disabled located and problem went away.

Jim

tom sawyer wrote:

>  
>  Hello all,
>
> I'm having a problem.  I have a couple of linux boxes that I support 
> at a client site.  The problem is that one of them keeps locking up 
> for no apparent reason.  All I have is SSH access.  I have to have 
> them reboot the device so that I can SSH back into it.  Nothing shows 
> up in /var/log/messages when it locks up.  The next thing I see is the 
> Syslog-NG starting up and the boot messages when they have to 
> power-cycle the device.  Any ideas what "debugging" I can turn on in 
> order to find out more about what's going on?  These are roughly based 
> on RH 7.1 (originally)  and are on 2.4.23 or later kernel.  I can't 
> upgrade the kernel due to it coming from a vendor for the application 
> we use on it.
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
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