Re: server memory swap eaten up then freaks out

2009-04-29 Thread frank
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 20:16 +0100, Pete Boyd wrote: Before seeing this issue, this server has run fine for two years with Sarge, and fine for a couple of months with Etch. Thunderbird 2 was installed on workstations in December. Other than that barely any changes have been made and nothing

Re: server memory swap eaten up then freaks out

2009-04-28 Thread Pete Boyd
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 12:33 +0100, Pete Boyd wrote: I have a mail and Samba PDC server that, after a couple of days, runs out of RAM then swap then freaks out with oom killer kicking in, at which point it becomes very unresponsive and needs rebooting. Does anyone have any ideas of what

server memory swap eaten up then freaks out

2009-04-27 Thread Pete Boyd
I have a mail and Samba PDC server that, after a couple of days, runs out of RAM then swap then freaks out with oom killer kicking in, at which point it becomes very unresponsive and needs rebooting. Does anyone have any ideas of what could be causing this please? The server has a Pentium 4 era

Re: server memory swap eaten up then freaks out

2009-04-27 Thread frank
Hi Pete, On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 12:33 +0100, Pete Boyd wrote: I have a mail and Samba PDC server that, after a couple of days, runs out of RAM then swap then freaks out with oom killer kicking in, at which point it becomes very unresponsive and needs rebooting. Does anyone have any ideas of