On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Robert Watson wrote: > On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Steve Shorter wrote: > > > > I have some machines that run customers cgi stuff. > > > These machines have started to hang and become unresponsive. > > > At first I thought it was a hardware issue, but I discovered in > > > a cyclades log the following stuff that got logged to the > > > console which explains the cause of the system hangs/failures. > > > > > > vnode_pager_putpages: residual I/O 65536 at 347 > > > vnode_pager_putpages: I/O error 28] > > > vnode_pager_putpages: residual I/O 65536 at 285] > > > > Aha! also at the same time I get in syslog > > > > /kernel: pid 6 (syncer), uid 0 on /chroot/tmp: file system full > > > > Whats happening? Can a full filesystem bring the thing down? > > Ideas? Fixes? > > Ideally not, but many UNIX programs respond poorly to being out of memory > and disk space ("No space, wot?"). Are you using a swap file, and if so, > how did you create the swapfile? Are you using sparse files much?
If the machines run CGIs, then it is probably ImageMagick's mmap()s: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/67919 Igor Sysoev http://sysoev.ru/en/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"