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  From: David de Groot <david@viking.org.au>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 21:55:09 +0930

RE: Do as we say, not as we do...

Wednesday, April 03, 2002, 9:33:12 PM, Daryl wrote:

> David de Groot wrote:

>> Interesting fact on uptimes, HP/UX 10.20 gets pretty flaky after 580
>> days uptime.
>> 
>> We had one box just make it to 600 days but then *really* needed a
>> reboot.

> There's a problem with kernel memory fragmentation on long running bog
> standard 10.20 kernels, usually tipped off by a bizarre message in
> syslog (which escapes me at the moment).

We found many bizarre things happening:
 - negative CPU utilisation reported by vmstat
 - processes that wouldn't restart
 - packet counters that had gone negative
 - weird behaviour from the firewall software we were running on it

All fun and games really... ;)

Dave
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