Here's what memory I have. Do you still think it's the problem?
free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1003 301 702 0 27 66
-/+ buffers/cache: 207 795
Swap: 1996 0 1996
Thank you.
> it seems you're out of swap and the kernel start killing jobs
> indiscriminately.
>
> add swap or better yet memory?
>
> On 11/16/06, olga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Our server has been at times very slow lately and unresponsive and
>> needed
>> to be restarted several times. I found the following error in the logs
>> about perl:
>>
>> Nov 15 21:02:49 kernel: Mem-info:
>> Nov 15 21:02:49 kernel: Zone:DMA freepages: 1055 min: 1056 low: 1088
>> high: 1120
>> Nov 15 21:02:49 kernel: Zone:Normal freepages: 765 min: 766 low:
>> 4031
>> high: 5791
>> Nov 15 21:02:49 kernel: Zone:HighMem freepages: 264 min: 255 low:
>> 510 high: 765
>> Nov 15 21:02:49 kernel: Free pages: 2084 ( 264 HighMem)
>> Nov 15 21:02:49 kernel: ( Active: 247285/3347, inactive_laundry: 0,
>> inactive_clean: 0, free: 2084 )
>> Nov 15 21:02:49 kernel: aa:2127 ac:20 id:0 il:0 ic:0 fr:1055
>> Nov 15 21:02:49 kernel: aa:212147 ac:2140 id:3347 il:0 ic:0 fr:765
>> Nov 15 21:02:49 kernel: aa:30593 ac:258 id:0 il:0 ic:0 fr:264
>> Nov 15 21:02:49 kernel: 1*4kB 1*8kB 1*16kB 1*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB
>> 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 1*4096kB = 4220kB)
>> Nov 15 21:02:49 kernel: 3*4kB 1*8kB 2*16kB 0*32kB 1*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB
>> 1*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3060kB)
>> Nov 15 21:02:49 kernel: 0*4kB 6*8kB 1*16kB 1*32kB 1*64kB 3*128kB 0*256kB
>> 1*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 1056kB)
>> Nov 15 21:02:49 kernel: Swap cache: add 594668, delete 591932, find
>> 209410/234040, race 0+108
>> Nov 15 21:02:52 kernel: 1492 pages of slabcache
>> Nov 15 21:02:55 kernel: 228 pages of kernel stacks
>> Nov 15 21:02:57 kernel: 0 lowmem pagetables, 1117 highmem pagetables
>> Nov 15 21:02:58 kernel: Free swap: 0kB
>> Nov 15 21:02:59 kernel: 262138 pages of RAM
>> Nov 15 21:02:59 kernel: 32762 pages of HIGHMEM
>> Nov 15 21:03:00 kernel: 4485 reserved pages
>> Nov 15 21:03:00 kernel: 7236 pages shared
>> Nov 15 21:03:01 kernel: 2736 pages swap cached
>> Nov 15 21:03:01 kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 9732 (perl).
>> Nov 15 21:06:08 kernel: application bug: perl(1292) has SIGCHLD set to
>> SIG_IGN but calls wait().
>> Nov 15 21:06:08 kernel: (see the NOTES section of 'man 2 wait').
>> Workaround activated.
>>
>> What does this indicate? Can someone help me please.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Olga
>>
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