[plug] Intermittant, constant crashes

[Bill Kenworthy]

open the box and check the fans and heatsinks for buildup of lint or not
working properly - when was the last time you lifted the lid?.  Is there
a correlation between room temperature or system load that indicates a
heat problem?  Kernal oop's are indicative of heat problems with amd
k6's (I note you have a pentium), though not all the time - an
occasional one appearing at the start of hot weather has always been
"lift the lid and vacuum time" for me!

With an old machine, it is also possible you have a bad memory module,
or a dying hard drive (this should show up in the logs though). 
Software is actually a less likely cause of this type of crash than
hardware (unless you are running you know what!)

On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 21:21, Kai wrote:
> Howdy all,
> 
> For a while now my 6.2 firewall/javaradio server has been crashing for 
> no apparent reason after no regular time interval.
> I have been checking the logs I know of and nothing appears to be wrong, 
> however, here's a basic run down.
> 
> Machine boots fine, no worries....then, maybe after 10 minutes or 3 days 
> the machine will unexpectedly stop responding to any keyboard requests 
> and only a hardware reset will get it running again. A common time for 
> the server to stop responding is about 12 hour or so, but, as I wrote 
> before it has crashed anywhere from 10 minutes or 3 days.
> That's about it really, for no apparent reason the machine stop 
> responding and I can't find any trace of why in the error logs that I 
> know of...everything shows as normal.
> 
> System is:
> Pentium 233MMX with 64 Megs of RAM
> Red Hat Linux 6.2
> 
> I have used the same machine for a few years now and this has only 
> happened in the last few months, I didn't want to bother anyone on list 
> before I checked the logs and did some troubleshooting, however, I'm not 
> a full bottle on Linux, far from it and any help would be more than welcome
> 
> I can hear a lot of people say "wipe that crap off their and install 
> Debian", that might work but it won't solve the problem of why this 
> machine crashes without any warning.
> I am out of ideas and any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> I hope I've provided enough info.
> TIA
> 
> Kai
>