RE: FC1 Killing processes

[Yang Xiao]

-----Original Message-----
From: Christo Bezuidenhout [mailto:[e-mail]] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 2:36 PM
To: [e-mail]
Subject: FC1 Killing processes

I'm running FC1 on a intel 1.7G CPU with about 700MB RAM.

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.

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.

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

Where can I start looking for problems.

This is wat I got out of /var/log/messages
Jun 30 15:20:11 mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2733 (named).
Jun 30 15:20:11 mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2734 (named).
Jun 30 15:20:11 mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2735 (named).
Jun 30 15:20:11 mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2736 (named).
Jun 30 15:20:13 mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2964 (httpd).
Jun 30 15:20:19 mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2965 (httpd).
Jun 30 15:20:25 mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2966 (httpd).
Jun 30 15:20:33 mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2969 (httpd).
Jun 30 15:20:40 mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2970 (httpd).
Jun 30 15:20:46 mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2971 (httpd).
Jun 30 15:20:54 mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2972 (httpd).
Jun 30 15:21:03 mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2976 (httpd).
Jun 30 15:21:08 mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2873
(MailScanner).
Jun 30 15:21:14 mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2953 (xfs).
Jun 30 15:21:23 mail root: Process did not exit cleanly, returned 0 with
signal 15
Jun 30 15:38:06 mail dovecot(pam_unix)[8529]: check pass; user unknown
Jun 30 15:38:06 mail dovecot(pam_unix)[8529]: authentication failure;
logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=
Jun 30 15:39:24 mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 5846 (httpd).
Jun 30 15:39:31 mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 5847 (httpd).
Jun 30 15:39:36 mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 5848 (httpd).
Jun 30 15:39:43 mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 5849 (httpd).
Jun 30 15:39:49 mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 5850 (httpd).
Jun 30 15:39:56 mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 5851 (httpd).
Jun 30 15:40:13 mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 5852 (httpd).
Jun 30 15:40:20 mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 8694 (httpd).

Hi,
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.

Yang