On 21 Apr 2010, at 08:28, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
... Does the system have sufficient swap?
swap should be OK:
# free -m
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 501 484 17 0 16
241
-/+ buffers/cache: 226 275
Swap: 494 288 205
OK, a bit more RAM wouldn't hurt here.
But I am compiling stuff right now.
I would add more.
Services mysteriously dying, surely that could be because the kernel
is killing them off due to an out-of-memory condition?
Maybe you have changed to a different compiler version in the past,
and this creates larger binaries?
That seems a bit tenuous, I don't know, but you can use a swapfile on
Linux (i.e. you can add to the current swap without having to create
an additional partition), and I doubt if it is hard to set up.
ad updates:
I was rather defensive there, I have to admit ..
Just like "never touch a running system" ...
I seem to get into more trouble when I'm cautious with updates than I
do when I just let 'em rip as often as possible. More frequent updates
means fewer updates.
Stroller.
