I had a similar problem with a server of mine, but it turned out to be a problem with the network stack. It would over overflow and kill all of the network processes. Not sure how to fix it, I ultimately replaced the machine.
--Dallin Jones [email protected] 801-368-2568 On 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. > */ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
