[Wylug-discuss] System Crash

[Andy Davidson]

On 6 Jul 2007, at 21:09, Mark P. Conmy wrote:

> As you say it's run without problem for more than three years then
> unless you've done an upgrade recently, I'd suspect hardware  
> degradation
> and keep an eye on it.

The box has been up for three years; slight memory leaks in a three  
year old kernel's tcpstack, or socket handler or ... ... would have  
caused the box to respond to icmp but not be able to start new daemon  
connections.

Security > Uptime.

The kernel needs upgrading.


In my humble opinion ;-)