Proxmox 5.1 freezing every hour (supermicro X10)

[Simon Bakker]

Hello,

I have installed Proxmox 5.1 (latest release) on my Supermicro server with an X10 board last week.

Every 1-2 hours the server freezes and becomes unresponsive. Even typing in the IPMI KVM console doesn't work. Only when I do a hard hardware reset, the server reboots and boots proxmox. I've searched for hours on google for this issue and cannot find a fix.

What I've done already:
- Change storage (different ssd/hdd)
- Another kernel, crashing interval increases
- Memory check, completed with no errors
- Check diskspace, no full partitions, a lot of free space left.

Does someone has this issue too?

 

[Jean-Paul van Hamond]

Because the IPMI freezes it looks more like a hardware than a software problem.

Please check in you BIOS the watchdog functionality and disable watchdog in de BIOS.

 

[Dark26]

Try to disable c6 states in the bois if possible.

 

[Simon Bakker]

Our BIOS version was 2.0 which had issue's (common). We updated to 2.0a.

 

[Vasu Sreekumar]

Your issue got solved after upgrading BIOS?

I have a Dell C6100, i think i will try updating BIOS.

 

[daemaz]

I had an issue like that with my X9 board and Server 2016, it would lock up and the kvm console wouldn't display (although I could browse the ipmi webpages just fine). I'd hit reset on ipmi/kvm console and it would reboot and come back up. I ended up replacing the processor, from an E3-1220 to an E3-1240v2, and it hasn't happened since.

 

[Vasu Sreekumar]

I have L5640 duel processors.

Updating BIOS seems like solved the issue.

 

[daemaz]

I have L5640 duel processors.

Updating BIOS seems like solved the issue.

Are you running just one node on that, or all four?

 

[Vasu Sreekumar]

I have upto 20 LXC containers.

All working fine now.