hello i guess theres a problem with the mysql running. mysql tends to have a tendency to create temporary swap files which are not deleted automatically. mysql is know to have a limit to this i am not sure how much. but you might want to checkout man pages for mysqladmin tools.
cheers -- Alpesh Software Engineer In-Reality Software Pvt Ltd On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 09:47, Goutam Baul wrote: > Hello list, > > For the past 3 weeks I am facing a problem with one of my servers. This > server is running RH 8.0 with apache, mysql. There are several cron jobs > configured in the server and nfs,vsftp and sendmail services are also > running. Sendmail is used to send mails from the applications in cases of > errors and nothing else. The applications that are running are using PHP and > Perl. All these things are running in the server for the past 1 year without > any problem. But for the last few weeks, the server is stopping responding > every 2-3 days. The error log shows many "out of memory, killing process" > errors. The error starts with mysqld and goes with apache, ftp etc. The > mysql log only shows that the mysqld service was stopped and started > frequently. No other error message was there. > > The versions of the things running are > > Mysql - 3.23.52-3 > Apache -- 2.0.40-8 > PHP - 4.2.2-8.0.5 > Perl - 5.8.0-56 > > The kernel is 2.4.18-14 and the machine is a DELL poweredge with 512MB of > RAM. > > When the errors happen, it is not possible to logging on to the machine as > there is no response at all. Only the console keeps on displaying the "out > of memory" messages. > > We have not n\introduced any new application or modified any existing one in > the last 2 months. Don't know whether it is relevant or not, the SMPS was > changed one month back. > > Can anyone help in finding and solving the problem? If I post the error log > here there will it be helpful? > > With regards, > > Goutam > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop > FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! > Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
