Help: Runaway processes killing server...

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mi, den 01.09.2004 schrieb Mauri Sahlberg um 16:57:

> Twice comment-spammer has managed to bring our small server first to
> it's knees and then to it's belly? We are running postgresql, apache
> and serendipity. Today and yesterday this combination with very rapid
> repeated loading of serendipity comment-function (GET
> /comment.php?serendipity[entry_id]=9&serendipity[type]=comments
> HTTP/1.0" 200 3708 "http://12.163.72.13/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;
> MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
> ) has managed to eat every scrap of memory there is? All I could do
> was to boot the server.
> 
> Is my diagnosis of the out of memory correct one? What can I do to
> avoid this happening again? Any ideas?

Limit resources usage with ulimit in the init script of services or
better by settings in /etc/security/limits.conf. That will not protect
specific services but the server stability in whole.

Alexander


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Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) kernel 2.6.8-1.521smp 
Serendipity 20:24:03 up 2 days, 17:40, load average: 0.69, 0.65, 0.64 
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