This one time, at band camp, Steinar H. Gunderson said: > I'm unsure if this is a munin bug or a kernel bug; I'm filing against > munin, but it should perhaps be reassigned. > > I installed munin on a Dell PowerEdge 2950: > > Setting up munin-node (1.2.5-1) ... > Initializing plugins.. > > At this point, ssh froze. I connected through the remote admin console, > which was filled with messages like: > > megasas: [65] waiting for 140 requests to complete > megasas: [70] waiting for 140 commands to complete > megasas: [75] waiting for 140 commands to complete > megasas: [80] waiting for 140 commands to complete > > The server never recovered, and I had to (remote) reset it. In other > words, some plugin in munin-node kills the megasas driver, which in turn > kills the entire server.
Knowing exactly which plugin did this would be helpful, of course, but I doubt it's munin directly at fault. There are several plugins (hddtemp comes to mind) that can do funny things to hardware, but if userspace kills the kernel, my first finger pointing is at the kernel. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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