-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Eduardo Tongson wrote: >>Nothing. The logs simply stop when the machine does and are no longer written >>even though the kernel is operable enough to respond to pings and initiate >>TCP sessions. > > > You could certainly encounter this too when the machine's load shoots to the > roof or one of the running programs is vehemently leaking memory.
My experience is that this is related to running out of memory, and have replicated it several times on boxes with limited memory. To test I had two ssh sessions open running `watch uptime` and `watch free`, and then hammered the box -- the load shot up and free memory was rapidly shrinking toward 0 and then the box froze. jbw -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCa/KfbGbHn5fpwSURAshqAJ9sAqm/tS3r5GNoePWbPt7Xw+s48ACglkKD f3aJwssBCWlwI1aJsQ3RJmA= =3HTR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] mailing list
