On 3/28/06, Benjamin J. Weiss benjamin@birdvet.org wrote:
Sorry, it's an HP/Compaq ML-530. It didn't do this until I changed the OS, so I doubt that it's a BIOS issue.
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I've got an RHEL-4 server (yep, I know it's not CentOS, but hey we gotta send some money RH's way to keep CentOS up and going! ) that's running Oracle 10g. This same hardware worked just fine for over a year running RHEL-AS-2.1 and Oracle 9i. Now we're getting spontaneous reboots when running oracle processes that eat up a bunch of resources. I don't know where to go from here.
I didn't see a mention of the hardware type, but some systems have a BIOS setting to reboot if the hardware doesn't detecet any "activity" for a period of time. Check for that setting and disable that feature. This may solve the issue. If not at least let you see the crash if there is one.
Unless they changes since the acquisition the system has the BIOS setting I mentioned.
You specified that this happens under a heavy load. With the newer OS ans Oracle the hardware may think that the server is locked up. Or you may actually be experiencing a lock-up and the BIOS setting causes a reboot
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