[asterisk-users] New Asterisk server crashes daily

[Patrick]

On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 14:39 +0100, Roshan Sembacuttiaratchy wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 06:23:05AM -0700, Al Lougher scribbled:
> > Hi -
> >    
> >   This is the first Linux server I have ever built with an 
> >   installation of Asterisk at Home 2.7. For development I have been 
> >   running on VMWare on an XP box and sustained no crashes or reboots. 
> >   After moving Asterisk to it's own server I am experiencing daily 
> >   crashses (around 4am) and I'm not quite sure what the problem is, 
> >   nor am I sure where exactly to look for logs of any errors prior and 
> >   during the crash. During the crash there should be nothing running 
> >   so I'm not sure why it crashes at this time (perhaps some system job 
> >   that is running at this time?).
> >    
> >   My hardware is: AMD Athlon 64bit 3200 CPU, 1 gig memory, 100gb hd 
> >   and a gigabit NIC card. The BIOS is set with defaults.
> >    
> >   Many thanks,
> >   Al.
> 
> Your comment about it happening around 4am leads me to think it might be the 
> default daily-scheduled cron jobs somehow affecting you.  Are you sure 
> you have enough swap space configured?  

Try disabling prelink in cron.

Regards,
Patrick