The guys on the Dell PowerEdge ML seem to be attracted by the idea that it is a driver problem of the network adapter. In this case, lspci gives me: 09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12) Does this match your adapter? Regards, Peter Mathew S. McCarrell wrote: > Actually, I've also been experience this issue on a two identical > custom built systems running 5.3 x64 with Xen. I experienced the > issue under the same kernel that Peter is running and the first kernel > released with 5.3. > > In my particular instance, I'm attributing these random crashes to > hardware problems since I'm only experiencing the issues on these two > systems and not an older Dell PowerEdge 850 which is set up with the > same software configuration. > > Matt > > -- > Mathew S. McCarrell > Clarkson University '10 > > mccarrms at gmail.com <mailto:mccarrms at gmail.com> > mccarrms at clarkson.edu <mailto:mccarrms at clarkson.edu> > > > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com > <mailto:mpeters at mac.com>> wrote: > > JohnS wrote: > > > > > My sejustion is unplug everything hooked to it but the power and > network > > cabling. Open it up while it is running, and shake the cables > lightly > > ( don't jerk on them). External disk array, unplug it also. USB > floppies > > and cd drives unplug emmm all. > > > > Is it under a heavy load? High cpu usage? Some times when there is a > > power supply on the verge of dying you don't really know until > disk I/O > > climbs real high thus pulling loads of wattage. > > That's my guess. > I'd swap out the power supply. > > My personal experience with ram issues is either kernel panic or > filesystem funnyness (sometimes resulting in filesystems being > remounted > read only). My experience with disk I/O issues is that forcing fsck > reveals filesystem errors with high frequency. > > Rebooting machines in my experience is almost always a failing power > supply (or faulty power source - check your UPS, when they start to go > bad they can cause issues). > > If it was a kernel issue, I suspect more people would be experiencing > (unless it is caused by a third party kmod) > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org <mailto:CentOS at centos.org> > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Dott. Peter Hopfgartner R3 GIS Srl - GmbH Via Johann Kravogl-Str. 2 I-39012 Meran/Merano (BZ) Email: peter.hopfgartner at r3-gis.com Tel. : +39 0473 494949 Fax : +39 0473 069902 www : http://www.r3-gis.com