[Gllug] server sleeping

[Chris Bell]

On Sat 09 Sep, Casper Gasper wrote:
> 

> 
>   No; just to follow up, the idea that clamav can't scan files bigger
> than ram+swap is bollocks, and I finally identified the crashing as a
> hardware issue.  The problem was the box was so lightly loaded that
> the only thing that thrashed the disk was the weekly AV scan.  It
> seemed to be 15 minutes of continuous activity was enough to hang it.
> I tried:
> 
>  dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null
> 
> and that kills it too.
> 
> Casper.

   You may find that the processor cooler fan is covering a ring of debris
that blocks the heat sink.

-- 
Chris Bell

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