Re: Debian/kernel's policy for fatal errors, etc.

2010-07-06 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Chandler writes: > I have had a Debian based server at home running 24/7 for about 7 or 8 > years. Living near London, we seem to have a reasonably stable > electricity supply (I don't do anything special) and I have had > uptimes of nearly a y

Re: Debian/kernel's policy for fatal errors, etc.

2010-07-05 Thread Alan Chandler
On 05/07/10 22:22, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, When a computer stays turned on for a long amount of time, some problems could arise. I have the following questions: 1. What habitually makes a computer 'running Linux) go down (except electric problems)? 2. What are Debian/kernel's adaptations to p

Re: Debian/kernel's policy for fatal errors, etc.

2010-07-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Merciadri Luca wrote: > pretty correctly integrated into the kernel. I should not worry like > this, but for a computer which needs to be turned on 24h/24, 7d/7, etc., > it's an important thing because, for meteorological data capture, we > shall all depend on the computer's `good-will.' I have pe

Re: Debian/kernel's policy for fatal errors, etc.

2010-07-05 Thread Merciadri Luca
Bob Proulx wrote: > Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> When a computer stays turned on for a long amount of time, some problems >> could arise. I have the following questions: >> >> 1. What habitually makes a computer 'running Linux) go down (except >> electric problems)? >> > > One possibility is

Re: Debian/kernel's policy for fatal errors, etc.

2010-07-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Merciadri Luca wrote: > When a computer stays turned on for a long amount of time, some problems > could arise. I have the following questions: > > 1. What habitually makes a computer 'running Linux) go down (except > electric problems)? One possibility is soft memory errors in the RAM. Using EC

Debian/kernel's policy for fatal errors, etc.

2010-07-05 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, When a computer stays turned on for a long amount of time, some problems could arise. I have the following questions: 1. What habitually makes a computer 'running Linux) go down (except electric problems)? 2. What are Debian/kernel's adaptations to prevent such problems from arising? Thanks.