[support] mysql/apache crashing

[Greg Knaddison - GVS]

On 9/22/06, Nat Catchpole <natcatchpole at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >This may not be drupal's fault, but I'd appreciate any advice you can offer
> >with it.

Problems like this are almost always hardware related.  Unfortunately,
the only way to test this is to take the server out of production, run
hardware tests on it (e.g. memtest, cpu maxing utilities, etc.) and
then see if it falls over.

These problems can seem like they are caused by software performance
because the box only falls over when the system is maxed out and
performing badly - but a server should handle getting maxed out for
days on end without problem.

If you can add some more monitoring (e.g. for temperature inside the
box) and watch to see if there is a correlation there you may be able
to diagnose the problem without taking it down.  Then the solution is
to do something to fix that problem (e.g. a bigger fan, different
cabinet) and move on.

Regards,
Greg

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