[Cialug] Linux Server Spontaneous Reboot?

[David Bierce]

You can do it in windows too.  You can look through gobs of unrelated, hard to filter event logs and you can set up some WMI performance monitoring that will give you lots and lots of detail unrelated to the issue your trying to find.

Yes, I'm a little bitter moving to windows since I can't just ps, iostat, top, iotop and grep a log file to find 90% of my server issues.

That out of the way, I haven't had a single random reboot or zombie problem on windows or linux that couldn't be figured out in 5 minutes of looking (A poorly written Java program running as root with a VM size identical to the machines VM) or tracked back to a piece of faulty hardware.


On Nov 17, 2010, at 8:03 AM, Josh More wrote:

> Linux does it too.
> 
> The difference is that under Linux you can use Syslog and sar to get a better feel as to why than you can in Windows.
> 
> 
> -Josh More, CISSP, GIAC-GSLC, GIAC-GCIH, RHCE, NCLP
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> ________________________________________
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [cialug-bounces at cialug.org] on behalf of Todd Walton [tdwalton at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 07:56
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Linux Server Spontaneous Reboot?
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> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:12 PM, John Roach <jroach at simplicitysys.com> wrote:
>> Depends, what do your system logs show for the reason of the reboot? Was
>> it a clean shutdown, or did it list nothing followed by a normal boot?
> 
> My question was prompted by a reboot of a Windows server.  My
> frustrated reaction was "Linux wouldn't do this!".  But, you know,
> Linux isn't immune from failure either.  So I was just trying to get
> some perspective.
> 
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> Todd
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