Re: Restarting killed processes
On Friday 31 October 2003 20:25, BruceG wrote:
> > Ainsi parla BruceG le 304ème jour de l'an 2003:
> >> Hey all,
> >>
> >> I recently installed sendmail / ipopd / apache /squirrelmail to
> >> make a SMTP/POP mail server with a Web interface. I'm running
> >> Debian Stable. My PC is kind of clunky and old (100 Mhz, 16Meg RAM,
> >> 1 Gig disk space). I've noticed that some processes stop overnight.
> >> Apache, mandb, klogd,... - mainly it's Apache that stops.
> >
> > Do they _really_ stop, or only logging ? if it's this one, man
> > logrotate may help you
>
> Yeah, they stop. I was on a different PC and tried to connect to my web
> server. Couldn't connect. I went to the server and saw the message "VM:
> killing process Apache" on the console. I tried wading through the logs,
> but they're a little difficult for a newbie to understand.
Hi,
your system is probably out of memory and so it has to kill some processes.
Have you got enough swap space? AFAIK it is better to have a seperate swap
partition instead of a swap file, as the filesystem driver may need some
memory to write data to the swap file.
Regards
Jakob
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