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Re: [BAD] the whole server down with a red-alert-like attack



On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 11:58:57 +0100, endre@interware.hu writes:
>On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, alexis bory wrote:
>
>> This morning my litlle server (potato, apache 1.3.9) was down. No
>> webservices, no ssh, nothing but ping :(
>>
>> Jan 24 06:13:54 sfa01 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
>
>upgrade your kernel.

and *test your RAM*. I've had this happen (no IP services but ICMP)
 'cause of bad RAM a few times.

http://www.teresaudio.com/memtest86/

cheers,
&rw
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