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Re: [LUG] Dozing server

 

On 9/12/07, Simon Avery <flash@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> James Wonnacott wrote:
>
> > Every 15 minutes or so it refuses (or drops existing) connections (smtp,
> > pop3, ssh) pings become slow (anything from 1-100ms). tailing syslog or
> > messages suggests that nothing is happening, top shows nothing special.
> > then after about 5 minutes it just comes back and pretends nothing
> > happened. pings to it return in <1ms and all is fine and dandy again.
>
> Check /var/log/syslog for kernel or module errors. Linux documents many
> types of hardware failure there as well as dmesg.
>

It is possible that driver faults may not make it to syslog, have a
look at the dmesg output, eg just type "dmesg | less" as root and scan
for any naughty looking messages.

Robin

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