problem with unix systems. please advise
dear Unix expertised people
my unix server is always giving problems, I analysis the server and found as
1. the Unix system could not detect the NIC or network interface card sometime, it acquired to be completely shutdown and chill-down for few seconds, once it is turn on, everything comes back to normal ==> what wrong with it?
2. I found this piece of information from the server: there are 217967 blocks and 24218 blocks free, I have awareness that it means I still have 11.11% vacancy space, ==>
a. what is actual size for a block
b. does unix systems server using hard disk space as virtual memory as Windows usually does? or is that the root cause problems
c. root systems need to be mounted sometime, ==> how to avoid it?
thank you for your time reading those above question,
Khanh
my unix server is always giving problems, I analysis the server and found as
1. the Unix system could not detect the NIC or network interface card sometime, it acquired to be completely shutdown and chill-down for few seconds, once it is turn on, everything comes back to normal ==> what wrong with it?
2. I found this piece of information from the server: there are 217967 blocks and 24218 blocks free, I have awareness that it means I still have 11.11% vacancy space, ==>
a. what is actual size for a block
b. does unix systems server using hard disk space as virtual memory as Windows usually does? or is that the root cause problems
c. root systems need to be mounted sometime, ==> how to avoid it?
thank you for your time reading those above question,
Khanh
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Block size varies depending on how you formatted your hard drive. You could divide your hard drive's formatted capacity by the number of blocks to find the block size, or just read it out of your system logs.
I assume you're referring to the Windows pagefile when you say virtual memory and the answer is no. Though Unix can use a file on the filesystem as a pagefile like Windows does, most implementations use a separate, unformatted partition. This has performance advantages because the penalties associated with writing a file in a formatted filesystem aren't incurred.
I don't understand question 2.c. Are you asking about needing to have root user privileges to accomplish some task?
-drasnor
yes please
that right, I have the root privilledge, I got to fsck and mount some system directory before I can login normally
thank yuo for your time
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I still need your system log to troubleshoot your NIC problem.
-drasnor
thank you for your time in reading this message, I really appreciate you help
BD
ps: on the windows, we have winver or ver to get operating system version, how about unix ? how can I get the unix version please tell, thank you
On my machine (Gentoo Linux), the system logs are contained in /var/log/messages and /var/log/dmesg. A copy of both of those is what I'm looking for.
-drasnor
thank you
-drasnor
I found those, but they are link only :o
-drasnor
thank you for your waiting yes, I follow the link and found the logfile, please have a look and advise me what to do
thank you so much for your time
-drasnor
thankyou
-drasnor
thank you for your time
BD
-drasnor