System Hang

[Chris Anoruo_1]

My HP9000/800 K580 server frooze. You can do a telnet into it but ping responds
and on the LCD on the server I have "FA2F". After it was switched off and on,
there were no core dumps found.
Can any one throw some light on this issue?

[Melvyn Burnard_1]

If the system has had an apparent hang, you need to have done a TOC of the
system to force a memory dump. This would then need to be analysed to attempt
to determine the casue of the freeze or hang.
Also be aware that for the best chance of success, there must be enough dump
space for all of th ephysical memory, and enough file system space to save the
dump.

[Chris Anoruo_1]

Thanks Mevlyn,

I have a cron script that kills hanging processes generated from a flat file
banking software running bbx4. This is done every 5 minutes, it was as if the
processes were generated faster that the cron script could handle. This
happened again,and I was able to handle it by running the script manually at
faster intervals.

Cheers