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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Christo
Bezuidenhout [mailto:christo@it4africa.co.za] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June
30, 2004 2:36 PM<BR><B>To:</B> fedora-list@redhat.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> FC1
Killing processes<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=411460014-30062004><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm running FC1 on
a intel 1.7G CPU with about 700MB RAM.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=411460014-30062004><FONT face=Arial size=2>We get the
following in the DMESG were precesses are killed. This is a small mail server
serving about 3k messages a day. We run MailScanner SA sendmail and Virus
Checking. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=411460014-30062004><FONT face=Arial size=2>My logs are
supposed to be updated to a MYSQL DB but I had to stop this for my server
kills mysql and then everything stops. We aslo had a chaching DNS but this was
also killed. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=411460014-30062004><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=411460014-30062004><FONT face=Arial size=2>The server starts
fine and runs for a while then it starts killing processes. This server run OK
until we loaded fc1. Previously we were running RH9</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=411460014-30062004><FONT face=Arial size=2>Where can I start
looking for problems.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=411460014-30062004><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is wat I got
out of /var/log/messages</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=411460014-30062004><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jun 30 15:20:11
mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2733 (named).<BR>Jun 30 15:20:11
mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2734 (named).<BR>Jun 30 15:20:11
mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2735 (named).<BR>Jun 30 15:20:11
mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2736 (named).<BR>Jun 30 15:20:13
mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2964 (httpd).<BR>Jun 30 15:20:19
mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2965 (httpd).<BR>Jun 30 15:20:25
mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2966 (httpd).<BR>Jun 30 15:20:33
mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2969 (httpd).<BR>Jun 30 15:20:40
mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2970 (httpd).<BR>Jun 30 15:20:46
mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2971 (httpd).<BR>Jun 30 15:20:54
mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2972 (httpd).<BR>Jun 30 15:21:03
mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2976 (httpd).<BR>Jun 30 15:21:08
mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2873 (MailScanner).<BR>Jun 30
15:21:14 mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2953 (xfs).<BR>Jun 30
15:21:23 mail root: Process did not exit cleanly, returned 0 with signal
15<BR>Jun 30 15:38:06 mail dovecot(pam_unix)[8529]: check pass; user
unknown<BR>Jun 30 15:38:06 mail dovecot(pam_unix)[8529]: authentication
failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=<BR>Jun 30 15:39:24 mail
kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 5846 (httpd).<BR>Jun 30 15:39:31 mail
kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 5847 (httpd).<BR>Jun 30 15:39:36 mail
kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 5848 (httpd).<BR>Jun 30 15:39:43 mail
kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 5849 (httpd).<BR>Jun 30 15:39:49 mail
kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 5850 (httpd).<BR>Jun 30 15:39:56 mail
kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 5851 (httpd).<BR>Jun 30 15:40:13 mail
kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 5852 (httpd).<BR>Jun 30 15:40:20 mail
kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 8694
(httpd).<BR></FONT></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=094020920-30062004>Hi,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=094020920-30062004>Output from top and vmstat would be helpful to
troubleshoot, sort top by memory usage (shift-M) will probably give you some
idea which process is taking all of the available memory.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=094020920-30062004>Yang</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>