I'm administering a server with RedHat 7.3 installed, it runs the mail server (pop, imap and webmail), web server, and two or three minor services. It has an Athlon running an 1.3 GHz, 512 MB of DDR, and two SCSI disk running at 80 MHz in RAID 0 by software. The load average in the order of 2 to 3 is quite common.
The problem is that it hangs more or less once a week and our internal discussions are escalating to physical agression in two or three days :-). What is puzzling us is that it doesn't tell anything on what is happening, but it seems that it stops reading the disk and the kernel doesn't panic, as it answers pings and once I was logged in remotely and was able to type commands (of course, when I hit enter nothing happened).
The filesystem is ext3 and the kernel is 2.4.20 release 13.8, but also happened with 2.4.18 rel 3.
I should add that because of a misconfiguration it was running the SCSI bus at 40 MHz, when we corrected it and went to 80 MHz the hangups dropped, it was hanging twice or more a week. The cables and termination were replaced, as part of one of our tests.
Another thing, the general consensus here is that the problem is that we are using RedHat and we should use XXXX, which I do not agree, after all basically it's all the same software. Does anyone know of documentation I can use to support or drop my argument, besides a distribution comparison?
Well, any ideas to avoid the bloodshed will be apreciated. Thanks,
Darío
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