Mysterious kernel hangs

[Pfenniger Daniel]

Felix Rauch wrote:
> 
> We recently bought a new 16 node cluster with dual 1 GHz PentiumIII
> nodes, but machines mysteriously freeze :-(
...
If this doesn't depend on kernel nor on communications, I would suggest
a relation with temperature.  Typically on compute intensive task 
temperature can raise by a few degrees and components such as memory 
or processor can stop to work, without any error message!

A further action might be to increase the node cooling. 

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