On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 10:18:48PM +0200, Roché Compaan wrote: > On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 19:26 +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 08:19:11PM +0200, Roché Compaan wrote: > > > The following is logged quite often to the syslog in a vserver and I'm > > > worried since I don't see this in any of our regular servers: > > > > > > postfix/sendmail[32274]: warning: fork: Cannot allocate memory > > > > interesting, what does your /proc/virtual/<xid>/limits > > file (with the xid of that guest) show? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /proc/virtual/49196/limit > PROC: 120 266 -1 0 > VM: 407806 500000 500000 505 > VML: 0 0 -1 0 > RSS: 194897 250000 250000 97
looks like you guest did hit both, the VM and the RSS limits quite a number of times ... (505 and 97 times) > ANON: 181688 182048 -1 0 > FILES: 936 1970 -1 0 > OFD: 331 678 -1 0 > LOCKS: 10 25 -1 0 > SOCK: 128 355 -1 0 > MSGQ: 0 0 -1 0 > SHM: 0 0 -1 0 > > > > This is on Debian sarge on a 2.6 kernel with vserver v 2.0. The postfix > > > server in question is not busy at all and the vserver has plenty of > > > memory to spare. > > > > > > Any reason to worry here? > > > > well, I would try with a recent patch and see if it > > is still an issues ... > > The latest patch in Debian (unstable) seems to be > patch-2.6.14.3-vs2.0.1-rc5.diff. Is this recent enough? yep, that is quite fine, tx micah! > > -- > Roché Compaan > Upfront Systems http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
