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

[Steve Wright <paua quicksilver net nz>]

On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 07:39, Robert Harrelson wrote:
> Actually, this last incident was different -- I was able to log in to 
> the server (at the server) without a problem, run
> 
> purge_user robert

If you are able to do this again, then run top and watch it go down.. 
enlightening..

/steve



> 
> and that took care of it. In the past when this has happened I couldn't 
> log into the server at all, and had to just take it down.
> 
> So I guess that's progress. . .
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
> Steve Wright wrote:
> > 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
> > 
> > 
> > 
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