Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-20 Thread Alan Gilmour
Hey all, We have recently been getting a lot of traffic to one of our sites. The CPU is consistently during busy periods using 100% utilisation. When this happens we have approx 150 apache threads, and the loads goes way above 15. However recently the server has been auto-restarting (when under

Re: Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-20 Thread Alan Gilmour
Hi Roberto, There's nothing in /var/crash Any other ideas? Cheers Alan On 20/05/2008, Roberto Nunnari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Crash dumps should help. Alan Gilmour wrote: Hey all, We have recently been getting a lot of traffic to one of our sites. The CPU is consistently during

Re: Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-20 Thread Alan Gilmour
any errors at the time. May be worth switching back on I guess. Alan On 20/05/2008, Mark Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Gilmour wrote: We tried installing mbmon and lmmon and healthd, but none seem to work. How so? Do you have an error message to share with us? Anyone got any

Re: Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-20 Thread Alan Gilmour
: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roberto Nunnari Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:49 AM To: Alan Gilmour Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Server crashing, no explanations Then, if crash dumps are enabled, it could

Re: Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-21 Thread Alan Gilmour
I guess it can, but in the past when hardware has failed for me, I generally got some indicative errors in the logs. I managed to move a lot of the intensive operations across to another server and for the moment,its working much better on the other server which has a newer kernel. Cheers Alan