On 9/17/05, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > snacktime wrote: > > A FBSD 4.7 server this morning locked up and when I got to the data > center I > > found a bunch of IO error messages saying the pager couldn't allocate > needed > > swap space (or something close to that). Unfortunately these messages > didn't > > get logged anywhere that I could find and I didn't have anything on me > to > > write them down. The server has 500mb ram and is usually using about 70% > of > > that. The server didn't panic, but the console was not responsive so I > had > > to do a cold reboot. Everything came back up fine. > > > > Any ideas on how to debug this further? > > You ran out of swapspace, probably. How big is your swap partition, and > did > you notice unusually high number of processes running?
1 GB swap, 500mb ram. I looked in the logs for all the processes that were running and couldn't find anything out of the ordinary. My feeling is that I ran out of swap also, although it's bugging me because I can't yet find what caused it. You are running a version of FreeBSD which is significantly out-of-date, and > you ought to consider updating to 4.11. You should also update your ports > or > at least run portaudit to see whether the Apache, MySQL, and so forth are > OK. All the ports are up to date. I've been putting off upgrading the server, but it does have most of the security patches applied. Chris -- > -Chuck > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
