Re: Dying services due to low memory?
Ralf, ugly as it is, you could have a cron job restart inetd every five
minutes. I have heard that there is a debian package to ensure that daemons
are always running, I have forgotten the name of course.
Perhaps you could check ebay, ubid, etc for used memory?
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 11:17:13AM +0200, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> can anyone point me to a solution for the following problem?
>
> I have several machines running as Internet servers, mainly FTP and HTTP.
> They're relatively low-end machines (P100 and 486-133 with 48 resp. 64 MB
> RAM.) Every couple of days I have to restart inetd or other stand-alone
> services (like syslogd, klogd, snmpd, apache.)
>
> I'm pretty sure the reason why the processes fail is that memory usage is
> too high (it's *definitely* not due to memory problems, like failing RAM
> modules or overclocked CPUs.) Memory usage is permanently about 99%, swap
> usage only a few percent. But obviously processes are dying because they
> can't allocate "real" memory?!
>
> Of course a work-around would be to reduce the no. of concurrent FTP users
> that I allow, but I cannot easily do that. I simply cannot accept that
> services die as easily as they do. Isn't there a way to prevent this? I need
> a high availability of my machines, and having to constantly check and
> possibly restart services is not acceptable. :-(
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ralf
>
>
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