Re: [K12OSN] Re: server crash when client logs out of Gnome

[Steve Wright <paua quicksilver net nz>]

On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 06:14, Robert Harrelson wrote:
> 
> (2) One of the indications that something is up is that when I launch a 
> terminal window on the client, it comes up "empty" -- that is there is 
> not prompt ([robert IWP-LTS robert]$) and I cannot run commands. I think 
> it is consistently true that when this happens in terminal, I cannot log 
> out on the workstation.


Does the server halt /hard/ or does it go down in a flurry of disk
activity ?

What is the server loading during this time ?

I have had squid take a server down - processor load at max, swap going
through the roof, everything slowly dieing.  I had to be very quick and
<ctrl><alt><F1> login as root and `killall squid` - emphasis on the
'quick'.  30 seconds is all the time I had.

I have not been been near the system when it crashes.. unfortunate,
since I could `top` and watch.  We could do with a script that monitors
CPU load/swap and emails and/or logs the event should things get weird.


cheers,
Steve