Il 09/02/2011 08:32, shawn wilson ha scritto: >> I installed the 32bit OS because the 64bit ones i tried were crashing >> miserably. I know i shouldnt be using the 32bit bigmem kernel, but it >> was the default when i installed lenny using the preconfigured images >> from the datacenter. I guess i could easily switch to the default >> kernel, though. > > how were you able to install the os on a hosted server?
They have an internal TFTP server with a general rescue-install "live" system from which you can run tests, chroot or install other OSes, either from the custom images they built or from other ones. You just need to activate it for your mac and reboot the I can only tell it's a debian derivate, but it's most likely custom built to support the hardware in their machine park and the other services they are giving out with the servers. >>>> 1024MB of ram and 2x160Gb Sata HDDs. The NIC is a 100MBit realtek one, >>>> with proper drivers from the firmware-realtek debian package. >>>> I would love to have some opinions on how to deal with this. >>> First thing I would do is completely disable all power saving features in the >>> system BIOS, the kernel, and user space. If you still get the freezes, replace >>> hardware. >>As i don't have physical access to the machine, i can't play around with >>the bios. On topics about similar issues i saw replies close to this >>one you gave me, but i don't really know which direction i should take >>in order to "disable powersaving". Should i look for hardware specific >>stuff (like cpu frequency scaling which is directly connected to the CPU >>"Cool n Quiet" feature) or should i look for OS configuration? Do you >>know where should i look for information on the matter? > Server != VIA. ok, let me not be such an ass :) Haha, well yeah, i know it's crappy but it's very cheap! We're talking about €29/mo :) > i'd get them to run memtest on it, or ask them to plug an ip-kvm up to > it and put memtest in your grub and see what happens. after that fails, > i'd ask for a few months free server for your trouble. that or go ahead > and go elsewhere before you get too deep in with them - if it's messed > up from the start, they should be bending over backward to get you up > and running and make you happy than the other way around. > > give them a call. if they don't insist on figuring it out themselves, > cancel and go elsewhere. I did ask the support, they ran a CPU/RAM/HDD hardware test (i suppose memtest was run among those) for a total of 8 hours without errors. That's the weird part an the main reason i've come here for help. Anyway, i am just trying to troubleshoot this in order to be able to use the machine for one month. Possibly less. I have already found another provider i know won't give me this kind of issue. >>I should add that limiting the rtorrent download bandwith to 5MBps has >>managed to keep the server up, with all the services running for almost >>a day now. The default setting was to limit the bandwith at 12MBps. > hummm, i've never run 'torrent' software on a server and i wouldn't want > to host anyone running such software either :) > i've also never had a hosted server without ipmi (ilo, drac, etc) or > access to ip-kvm. might want to look into that. if they charge for ip, > look into a cisco asa5505 put there (i'm assuming you're doing this on > the cheap). They have a KVM service which i used already on another machine but i'm not entirely sure it's included in the package i bought for this particular server. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d525142.2090...@gmail.com
