I would think it must have run out of both physical and swap memory then before killing processes.
I had a Rivendell studio computer stop responding entirely last week. Turns out someone bumped the power strip. I corrected that but it drove me to set up Nagios monitoring across the entire Rivendell network, including servers and all studio computers. The monitoring watches disk space, physical memory, swap, number of processes, and so on and sends an email when there's something of note. The Nagios configuration is reasonably well documented online and there's nothing special that needs to be done for Rivendell unless you wanted to watch specific processes and have Nagios take action if a process goes missing. Anyway, just a thought that might help to watch what's happening on the machines. Steve On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 12:03:59AM -0400, Rob Landry wrote: > > Usually the biggest memory user is caed with between 8% and 16%. > > I have 1 GM of memory and 2 GB of swap in this machine. > > > Rob > > -- > ? ???, ??? ?????? ????????, > ? ???, ??? ??????? "??????", > ??? ????? ??????? ????? > ?????? ???????? ????. > > On Mon, 13 Aug 2018, [email protected] wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > You might try this next time to see what is taking up memory: > > > > top -o %MEM > > > > Also, is there swap available on the machine? > > > > Steve > > > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 04:27:38PM -0400, Rob Landry wrote: > > > > > > A station emailed me just now to report that rdairplay died in the middle > > > of > > > a piece of music. > > > > > > /var/log/messages shows that the OS ran out of memory and killed > > > rdairplay. > > > > > > This is RD 2.16 running under CentOS 6 on older hardware with 1 GB RAM. > > > The > > > machine doesn't do anything but run Rivendell with no manual intervention. > > > It's been running for at least a year with no problems. > > > > > > What would cause the OS to run out of memory, I wonder? The machine has an > > > AudioScience ASI5111 card that was almost certainly bought in 2007; I've > > > seen these cards go bad after this many years, but differently than this; > > > they've stopped producing audio and/or ceased to be recognized by > > > Rivendell. > > > This card still works; the client restarted rdairplay and it's running > > > fine > > > now. > > > > > > Any thoughts from the list? > > > > > > > > > Rob > > > > > > -- > > > ? ???, ??? ?????? ????????, > > > ? ???, ??? ??????? "??????", > > > ??? ????? ??????? ????? > > > ?????? ???????? ????. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Rivendell-dev mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > > _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
