New server crash this morning.  Two KVM guests running, but I was just
running a small perl script which reads in an 8109 byte xml file,
changes a couple of values via XML::Twig, and prints it to stdout.
After rebooting, the same script ran just fine.

I DID get a vmstat picture of  things, and the last output of top:

crash at:

lost connectivity at Fri Dec 17 08:40:11 CST 2010


final top screen:


top - 08:58:35 up 1 day, 47 min,  5 users,  load average: 0.51, 0.48, 0.42
Tasks: 191 total,   1 running, 190 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  3.5%us,  1.8%sy,  0.0%ni, 94.4%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.3%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   8160340k total,  3287448k used,  4872892k free,   177300k buffers
Swap:  1630460k total,        0k used,  1630460k free,  2237028k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
17939 root      20   0  528m 267m 3380 S   25  3.4 131:50.81 kvm                
   54 root      25   5     0    0    0 S   19  0.0  80:09.12 ksmd               
 1709 root      20   0  199m 5508 3420 S    2  0.1   9:37.83 libvirtd           
17357 jeremy    20   0 19272 1432 1028 R    1  0.0   2:39.89 top                
17904 jeremy    20   0  100m 1828  876 S    1  0.0   3:28.46 sshd               
 1775 bind      20   0  204m  29m 2224 S    0  0.4   0:36.81 named              
 2548 nagios    20   0 28472 1468  880 S    0  0.0   2:57.31 nagios             
17186 jeremy    20   0  100m 1828  872 S    0  0.0   0:06.69 sshd               
17708 jeremy    20   0  100m 1828  872 S    0  0.0   0:00.80 sshd               
17910 jeremy    20   0  9612  428  336 S    0  0.0   1:31.52 nc                 
    1 root      20   0 23896 2036 1244 S    0  0.0   0:09.89 init               
    2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 kthreadd           
    3 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:03.06 ksoftirqd/0        
    4 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kworker/0:0        
    6 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0        
    7 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/1        
    8 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 kworker/1:0   


last vmstat output (sampling at 1 second):


 0  0      0 4873808 177300 2237028    0    0     0     0 4283 8235  4  2 95  0


final command was running a perl script which parsed XML, reading in an 8109 
byte file

jer...@valhalla:~/sandbox/esx$ ./jda2.pl 
Write failed: Broken pipe


Note that this machine has 8GB of ram in a 4x 2gb configuration.  I will
remove 2 sticks of RAM later today and see if that eliminates the crash.
A friend has warned that he has seen random freezes in machines with
fully populated RAM banks.  I will be contacting the vendor, Biostar, to
see if there are known issues with this RAM and this motherboard, or
with fully populated RAM banks.

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  lucid system randomly locks up, does not recover

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