Hi Jeff, This sounds like a problem we had. It was never actually fixed but turning off Tomcat had a very positive impact.
It may be nothing, but it's somewhere to start. Good luck Jeffrey On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:43:07 +0000, Jeff Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > A while back I reported an issue of a BX server that mysteriously hung in > the night - all websites down, basically ran out of RAM: > > http://www.blueonyx.it/pipermail/blueonyx/2010-September/005484.html > > The only thing I could see beforehand that was fishy, was that the number > of processes running on the box suddenly started to increase, by 1 or 2 - > every 15 mins - until the server RAM went. > > So what I did was stick a monitor on the number of processes, and if it > went over 'X' in the future, to send me an alert. > > Well - I just got my first high process alert! > > The first thing I noticed was that the admserv was not working - I was > unable to get into GUI admin. I restarted admsrv, but no dice. > All the websites on the server were fine - this is the same as last time, > the sites only fail when the number of processes gets so high that the > server runs out of ram. > I tried to restart apache, but that hung. > On a different SSH session, I then attempted a reboot - but the reboot hung > when trying to kill cced. > > So there was something majorly wrong with the server. > > After the hard reset - it rebooted - and fine again. > > It's disappointing that although I can now detect this issue very early on > - I still need to perform a hard reset again to 'fix' it. I guess the > bonus now is that I get early warning, so I don't get woken up at 3am!!! > > So I was wondering - are there any other ideas as to why this might be > happening? > > Any suggestions for logs etc to look at? > > Cheers, > > Jeff > > Jeff Jones > [email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________ > Blueonyx mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list [email protected] http://www.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx
