Debian Linux server hangs after a week or so

Posted by Alex Flo on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Alex Flo
Published on 2012-06-26T16:09:13Z Indexed on 2012/07/09 9:17 UTC
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I have 2 Debian Linux 6.0.4 servers that have a strange behaviour: after 5-7-10 days they hang. By this I mean the servers need to be restarted and before that ping won't answer.

I've been struggling with this problem for a couple of months now and here's some thoughts/what I tried without being able to solve the problem.

  • I changed the RAM on a server. Being 2 different servers I doubt that it could be something related to hardware as a 3rd identical server won't have this problem.
  • I logged the server load and when it crashes the load is fine (quite low)
  • I cannot find anything in the server logs, logs are fine till the server freezes.
  • I don't have access to console unfortunately.

While I have years of admin experience I have never encountered such an issue and right now I have no idea where else to investigate.

If you have an idea of what I could try in order to fix the problem please share it with me:-)

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