u also need to observe the system load and how much memory the running processes consume. the following commands would be helpful for troubleshooting
free -m top ps -aux uptime vmstat remember that once consumption of your memory reached its peak, it will start to kill processes or programs which would likely lead to system hangs. the journal errors might be an indication of a running out of memory as orly points out. did the journal errors then appear right before the system hanged? --- Tito Mari Francis Esca�o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What should be the steps or options to resolve this? > Thanks! > > On 3/28/06, Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > journal error on ext3 is usually related to > running out of (physical) > > memory, even if there's lots of swap available. > the symptom is that there > > are a bunch of journal errors, then the filesystem > gets mounted read-only to > > forestall further damage. so the system is > effectively "wedged" since it's > > read-only. > > > > after reboot, one SHOULD run fsck.ext3 to fix the > filesystem > > (time-consuming). i don't know what would happen > if you don't. > > > > > > > > On 3/28/06, Tito Mari Francis Esca�o > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I read /var/log/messages and it's full of SQL > statements, as per > > > configuration of PostgreSQL. There's no > indication of any hardware > > > failure. When the server was rebooted, there > were no problems with the > > > hardware. According to the technician who > attended it, there were > > > journal error, but it wasn't clear. We had to > restart the server to > > > get it back on track or our site would spend > another hour unavailable. > > > What could have been the problem? There could be > a software issue but > > > I'm unsure. Thanks! > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________ > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > > > > > -- > Tito Mari Francis H. Esca�o > Computer Engineer and Free Software Proponent > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
