On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 16:59 +1000, Res wrote:
I have a problem with a CentOS 4 and now updated to 4.1 server, every so often the other servers try to contact it and this not there a retry and it is, like it goes to sleep, I have no problem with the fedora1, RH9 and slackware machines they just never do this.
I haven't seen this issue ... but it might actually be sleeping.
CentOS-4 uses a 2.6.9-x kernel that is much better at doing what your BIOS says for power saving mode than 2.4 kernels were. I would first check the sleep settings in the BIOS of the problem machine.
If that doesn't work, you try turning off the apmd and acpid services.
that unfortunately means teh system wont do a real poweroff if the UPS instructs it to.
dropped down to 2.4.31 kernel and the problem seems to have gone away so I think your right, its the 2.6.x kernel doing what it should, regrettably we dont want it to :)