[CentOS] Diagnosing random hangs

Mon Dec 18 21:46:30 UTC 2006
Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>

On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 04:44:38PM -0500, Mark Belanger wrote:
> >On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 04:17:59PM -0500, Mark Belanger wrote:
> >>I have many different centos machines that are hanging
> >>regulary.  I believe this is due to something our application
> >>is doing - not a centos specific problem.
> >>When the machines hang, there is no access to the console
> >>or remote access(ssh, rsh, etc).
> >Do you mean that there's no *access* to the console, or that it doesn't
> >*respond* on the console?
> X is frozen, no way to switch the console(i.e. Ctrl-Alt-F1, 
> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace),
> and no way to access the machine remotely.

Is the primary, problematic application an X app, or is X just running just
because?


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