> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Jeff Jones > Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 9:43 AM > To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List > Subject: [BlueOnyx:06638] Server processes slowly grow, admin GUI down, > cced hangs on shutdown > > 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.
It's gremlins, I tell ya. I have a BX server running on an old powerhog, an HP DL380 G3, which runs fine until a new kernel comes in through YUM and I edit grub.conf to use it. When the reserver reboots under the new kernel (which is now default=0), sometime around 4AM that night my server will simply stop responding to anything, except pings. No SSH, HTTP, FTP, nothing (useful) can access it. I have the HP health scripts with the watchdog timer running, but since the server isn't locked up, it just keeps sitting there until I wake up, hit the IP-based power switch and force a hard reboot. Not good for the SCSI drives, but there is nothing else I can do (short of buying different equipment) to determine why it does this, since it is remote to me. _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list [email protected] http://www.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx
