FC1 Killing processes

[Christo Bezuidenhout]

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).

Kind Regards,

Christo Bezuidenhout
E-Commerce Manager
IT for Africa

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[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mi, den 30.06.2004 schrieb Christo Bezuidenhout um 20:36:
> I'm running FC1 on a intel 1.7G CPU with about 700MB RAM.
> 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.
> Christo Bezuidenhout

Check what's eating the memory. I first would suspect the tools which
are not part of Fedora, namely MailScanner and other Perl tools. Run a
"top" and/or "ps axuwwww" to see the status of the processes.

Alexander

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even archived by other sites.

[Florin Andrei]

On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 11:36, Christo Bezuidenhout wrote:
> This is wat I got out of /var/log/messages
> Jun 30 15:20:11 mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2733
> (named).

Some process is buggy and is eating up all your memory.

Run "top" then hit SHIFT-M to sort processes by memory usage. Let it run
for a while and see what's popping up at the top of the list.

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 19:36, Christo Bezuidenhout wrote:
> I'm running FC1 on a intel 1.7G CPU with about 700MB RAM.

How much swap space do you have enabled?

Which kernel is this running ? There were a lot of VM improvements
in the later errata kernels.

Dave