Michael Gale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please install MySQL official binary downloaded from http://www.mysql.com/ and check if the problem is gone. It very much looks like some build issues.
Also please check that MySQL has enough memory to run - i.e. the key_buffer variable is reasonably high and also check other software on the server. > I have a mysql server that VM is killing about once every two weeks. Now my > sar utility shows that the memory on the > box continues to grow at a small rate from start to stop. But I am not sure how > accurate that is. > > Now I am running slackware 9.1 with kernel 2.4.23 with mysql 3.23 build 50 with > InnoDB support. I checked the my.cnf > file and found the following: > > The box is a dual xeon 2.4Ghz with 2GB of RAM > > __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) > VM: killing process mysqld-max > > Where do I start to find out if the problem is with mysql ? or our application ? It > appears that the mysqld-max process > will try and use all the memory in the box and so the kernel will kill the process. > > Also if I used mysqld_safe would it restart after this ? > > -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Egor Egorov / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL AB / Ensita.net <___/ www.mysql.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
