On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 08:55:44PM +0100, Dave O Connor wrote:
> And, to be perfectly honest, with regard to hard crashes on the server side,
> it's been about 50/50 for me, hardware issues aside.
I've only ever had issues with Linux boxes "hard crashing" due to the software
on the box. One of our main servers used to kernel panic regularly (this was
an old slackware box where the previous admin had custom compiled this kernel).
Downloading and installing a new kernel fixed that problem.
Thomas
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