On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 19:17 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > label.gnome.org ran out of memory this morning, it was looping hard in > the OOM killer. I got Red Hat IT to power cycle the machine a few hours > ago, but when I just looked the load average was at 24 and the machine > looked like it was heading for another OOM death. > > So, I stopped httpd, so ldap would stay up and we wouldn't have to get > the machine rebooted again. I also stopped puppet, since I think that > would start httpd when run. > > If anybody wants to dig in and try to figure out what is going on, that > probably would be a good idea.
What was going on is that a user accidentally (I think) uploaded a 97M binary file as the content of a fairly frequently accessed page. When anybody tried to access that page, it would spin forever eating enormous amounts of memory, which would eventually take the server down. I reverted the page change, and removed the offending revisions. - Owen _______________________________________________ gnome-infrastructure mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure
