----- Original Message ----- From: "Mauri Sahlberg" <Mauri.Sahlberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 3:16 AM Subject: Re: Help: Runaway processes killing server... > A lot of speculation follows, probably not very light reading and might > be complete gooblegeep. > > Tommy Reynolds wrote: > | Try adding more swap space. Check the web for how to use an ordinary > | file for this if you don't have any free disk space. Something like: > | > > Adding swap might help and I certainly hope it will. Under normal load > the old swap, which was a half gigabyte in size, was in practice unused. > Now the total amount of swap is four and half gigabytes which should be > a lot more than is required. I agree. > What I am actually looking for is clues how to find out what causes the > rapid consumption of the resources, where, by whom and how fast this > actually happens. I'm looking for tools to do better post mortem > diagnosis or tools that would gather me better information for post > mortem diagnosis. The /var/log/messages with OOM lines did not help me a > bit. I had an OOM awhile back and I couldn't figure out what was causing it. I used the following script to output my ps and vmstat every 10 minutes via cron The next time my machine started OOM. I reboot and checked the processes and vmstat files just before the OOM error and found a perl program that was causing the problem. #!/bin/sh # Check system status every 10 minutes # Writes the output of ps and vmstat to file TIME=`date +%H%M` ps -aux >> /tmp/syschk/$TIME.psCheck vmstat >> /tmp/syschk/$TIME.vmstatCheck Hope it helps > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
