Help on cluster hang problem...
David Vos
dvos12 at calvin.edu
Tue May 29 19:26:39 PDT 2001
Hmmm. I've seen Windows do that to enough computers I doubt the problem
is the power supply. Although to make Linux hang like that is usually a
hardware problem.
David
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Greg Lindahl wrote:
> On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 12:23:42AM -0500, Cris Rhea wrote:
>
> > "Hard-hang" means nothing on console, disk light on solid, doesn't
> > respond to reset or power switches- have to reset by pulling plug.
>
> That's kind of weird. Now the "power switch" on modern systems is a
> toggle switch that signals the power supply that you'd like it to
> change state. If it's ignoring that, then I'd suspect you've got
> something really wrong, along the lines of you don't have a power
> supply that can supply peak need for the system under weird load.
>
> You can test this by moving the power supply to a new node and see if
> it does it there. Nasty work, yes, but it would prove the point.
>
> Or, maybe I don't understand power switches and it actually is bios
> catchable or something.
>
> -- g
>
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