On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 15:22 +0530, Srinivasan wrote:
We have installed Fedora Linux 8.0 on our server and we have a web
based application running on DB MySql. The server hangs very
frequently(atleast once a day). All operations come to stand still
including the keyboard and mouse etc.. We need to hard boot the system
again to make the server up and running.
First of all, Fedora is not a linux distro I would recommend for a
server unless you really, really need to run bleeding-edge software on
your server. Fedora releases often, with very short support for old
releases.
I would recommend
centos.org as the place to find a server-oriented
distribution that is based on Fedora.
If you ever need to run a commercially supported linux on your server,
the step from CentOS to Red Hat Enterprise Server (RHEL) is very short.
They are mostly identical, apart from the need for a support license for
RHEL.
Combined with your claim that you run Fedora 8 I don't see the reason
for running Fedora at all. Fedora 8 is a long time obsoleted version.
There is no support for it anymore.
Either install CentOS 5.5 for a system with a long-term support and
excellent stability or Fedora 13 for the latest and greatest
bleeding-edge release with frequent updates.
If you still have the same problem (I would guess not), please come
back, telling wether you can still ping the server and/or log in to it
remotely with ssh (remember to enable the ssh service before it hangs).
--
birger