Dell PE2950 - 16GB RAM - RHEL4 ES U4 - 2.6.9-5.ELsmp system freeze

[Peter Kjellstrom]

On Thursday 06 September 2007, Shannon Skerritt wrote:
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> Can anyone knowledgeable or with experience comment on which direction
> I should be considering? The server in question is a key file server
> which is in production.

You should upgrade anyway. The -55 kernel includes many security and 
functionality updates. The -5 kernel you run isn't even EL4u4, it's EL4u0.

That said, your problems sound hardware related to me.

/Peter

> Is (RHEL 4 ES U4) 2.6.9-5.ELsmp considered particularly old

Only the latest update kernel for EL4 is considered not old :-)
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