This isn’t going to be a terribly helpful post, but I do think it is interesting. I have a server that is exhibiting some strange behavior. When I copy a file to the server it reboots.
At first, I thought this was a specific file, but later determined that it didn’t matter what the file was as long as it was over 4 MB. I copied a 1 KB file and nothing happened. I copied a file just under 5 MB and the system locked up, and then rebooted.
I thought maybe it was a problem with the file, so I copied it local to my computer. No problem. hmm…
I copied it directly from the source server to the destination server. Crashed the destination. Weird…
I copied it from my computer to the destination server. No problem. I copied a very large (2 GB) file from my computer to the destination computer. No problem.
I was about to decom that server anyway. Bombs away…