[plug] re: server freezing

[Andrew Barbara]

Yes this is normal.  It happens i windows as well, it has something to do 
with the hyper-threading in the Xeon chips.
I would suggest the terminal thing too, at lease you can see whats going 
on.


Andrew

On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Jon  Miller wrote:

> Just did a line-by-line look at dmesg and saw something that I find interesting, instead of stating it found 2 CPU processors it's actually saying found 4 processors.  There are only 2 Xeon processors.
> 
> Jon
> 
> Jon L. Miller, MCNE, CNS
> Director/Sr Systems Consultant
> MMT Networks Pty Ltd
> http://www.mmtnetworks.com.au
> 
> "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure
>  is trying to please everybody." -Bill Cosby
> 
> 
> 
> >>> craig at postnewspapers.com.au 9:04:23 PM 7/07/2003 >>>
> > What I meant was even though the server does not let me in or I cannot
> > see anything on the screen (because the keyboard has locked) I can hear
> > it's still on.  At what stage it's at I have no idea. I know I cannot
> > access anything on it because I can't run phpMyAdmin because you have to
> > have access to the IP Address.  Cannot ping the server either.
> 
> Interesting. Usually I'd be saying "hardware" at this point, but that 
> shouldn't be the case with the system you mentioned. Try setting up a 
> serial console if you can (see my previous posts on this).
> 
> Are the keyboard LEDs flashing (indicating a panic?) or does it just die 
> silently?
> 
> Any recent hardware changes?
> 
> Craig Ringer
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