I'm having trouble with my Linux box. When I boot the machine,
it starts fine, runs fine for about 1 hour to 2 days, then some
processes hang - ps shows status D. About at the same time,
every qmail-queue process that starts up ends up as zombie.
I did a ps -auxwl and it shows that the zombie processes are
in do_exit kernel function and the D functions are either in
do_done or wait_for_super.
Any idea? Maybe my hardware is faulty, but I've tried to change
the motherboard and the processor with no result. I've not yet
had a chance to change the memory - could it be faulty SIMMs?
This thing did not happen until a week ago. I've tried kernels
2.0.27 and recently upgraded to 2.0.30.
Please respond, I'm desperate about it. It's an ISP server and
the clients are unhappy :(
Magnus Hiie
Computers Manager
Eesti Ekspress