On Wed, 03 Apr 2002, Matthew Nuzum wrote: > I've been getting a couple of interesting entries in my logwatch for the > last couple of days. They all look something like this: > > Apr 2 15:45:03 www proftpd[16706]: Unable to open password file > /etc/passwd for reading: Too many open files in system > > I also get these entries here: (I'm not as worried about these, I think > they're low mem problems) > Apr 1 04:43:56 www kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for > lcdstop... > Apr 2 04:47:27 www kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for > in.qpopper... > Apr 2 04:47:27 www kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for > in.qpopper... > Apr 2 04:47:53 www kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for > analog... > Your kernel is trying to swap memory pages and can't Run Top or do cat /proc/meminfo You might indeed be low on RAM. People tend to keep expanding their servers duties and do finally have memory problems
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