According to Nico De Ranter: > The kernel apparently starts killing random (?) processes. > > kern.log.0:Sep 29 15:34:27 virtual kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 235 >(postmaster). > kern.log.0:Sep 29 15:51:43 virtual kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 8056 >(sendmail). > kern.log.0:Sep 29 15:52:09 virtual kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 309 >(apache-ssl). > kern.log.0:Sep 29 15:52:13 virtual kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 313 >(apache-ssl). > kern.log.0:Sep 29 16:05:52 virtual kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 474 >(apache-ssl). > > Then after a while it just doesn't respond anymore (not even on the serial > port).
Sounds pretty nasty. First thing you should to is try limiting the amount of VM htdig uses. Try ulimit -v. > On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 10:23:15AM -0500, Gilles Detillieux wrote: > > According to Nico De Ranter: > > > we have htdig running on a VA Linux box running Debian Linux. > > > The system has 512MB RAM and 512MB swap. A few hours after starting > > > an update of the htdig database the system runs out of memory > > > and crashes. Is there any way to restrict the amount of memory > > > the update can use? > > > > > > Running htdig 3.1.5, on Intel32 with kernel 2.4.6 > > > > Does the whole operating system crash, or is it just htdig that dies? > > If it's the whole system, I'd suspect a kernel bug or a hardware > > problem, either with RAM or memory management. > > > > If it's just htdig, then you probably need to work out a way of > > limiting how much it tries to index all at once. E.g. you can index a > > few subsections of your site separately, and then merge them together > > afterward. -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766 Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930 _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
