Troubleshooting something like this can be hard. If it's possible to plug the memory leaks, do so and see if it stops going down. It won't hurt, and it might help.
Other than that fairly obvious tidbit, I've got nothing. Sorry man. -Dan On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Wade Preston Shearer<[email protected]> wrote: > My server goes down from time to time. When it does, it is still on but none > of the services respond (no response from SSH, Apache, ping, etc). The server > is just a web server. Each time, I reboot it and it comes back up just fine. > I'm trying to figure out what keeps taking it down. I've wondered if it was a > bad hard drive in the RAID, but after looking at the Apache logs just now and > seeing a plethora of memory leak notices, I'm wondering if it's a memory > issue. Would a bad script that is leaking memory cause the machine to run out > of memory and then freeze up or cause all of the services to become > non-responsive? The answer seems very likely but I would be interested in any > pointers as to how to narrow this problem down. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
