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Art, It would be useful logon to the system -- my phone is 303-497-8688 if you'd like to relay password information more securely. We've found that often times, mysterious crashes are eventually traced back to a hardware problem. Are you still under contract with Dell on this system, and if so, are they working on the crashing problem? There's got to be a root cause for multiple hangs around the same time. mike On Oct 11, 12:01pm, Arthur A. Person wrote: > Subject: Re: 20040921 rpc.ldmd signal 11s > > Steve, > > Looks like we have a core dump for the rpc.ldmd signal 11 problem I > reported previously. The system info is: > > RedHat Enterprise Linux 2.4.21-15.0.4.ELsmp > LDM V6.0.15 > System: ls2.meteo.psu.edu Dell 4600 dual 3.0 Ghz > > The ldmd.log file shows some abnormal behaviour before the failure (which > I dont' recall seeing before): > > ... > > Finally, I will also mention that I've had two (I think) hangs of this > system for reasons unknown in the past couple of weeks. I put some > resource monitors in for the last one but couldn't find anything that I > thought was related to the cause. The hangs both occurred near 03Z > (similar to the time the rpc.ldmd quit last night) and would seem to be, > perhaps, a time of peak system activity for data reception and file system > activity (scour is running at that time and we have lots of little radar > files). > > I'm attaching the core dump. Let me know if you need anything else or > want to get on the system. I haven't restarted the LDM yet but will save > the queues if I do. > > Art.