> I recently built a new cluster, running Fedora Core 2 and IPVS 1.2.0.
> Since then, I'm having big problems. Eventhough the servers are not
> loaded, the director periodically crashed.
.
> No more network, no more interactive console access ... the
> only thing
> left is Alt-SysRq ! No single char logged (to disk or to the console)
> that could help :(
Sounds like a classic hardware problem. What is your NIC? Have you tried
doing memory tests? E.g., memtest (http://www.memtest86.com/)?
> Right now, I don't know what I can try and test ? I've
> changed the NIC
> driver, I've stopped the backup director, I've just stopped the sync
> daemon ... and still hoping it won't crash again. If it
> crashes again,
> I'll run without ipvs for a few days to see if it's really the cause.
Tg3/broadcom?
> Has anybody already faced such a situation ? Any help appreciated.
As I'm sure you know list is really quiet on LVS problems. I haven't heard
of any servers having big issues from LVS in years and years.
> Linux frioul 2.6.5-1.358smp #1 SMP Sat May 8 09:25:36 EDT
What is 2.6.5-1.358smp? Is that a fedora kernel?
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