On 2009-02-07, Uwe Dippel <udip...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ted Unangst wrote: >> You ran out of swap. > > Thanks, Ted, for the fast reply and immediate insight. So it must have > to do with that perl-program, since what I usually see is something like: > Memory: Real: 107M/347M act/tot Free: 1637M Swap: 0K/2151M used/tot > > Slightly off-topic: > Would it rather be perl committing all that memory or httpd?
add some instrumentation and you'll find out. symon can be good for this sort of thing (you can have it monitor memory/cpu use of specific processes at a frequent interval and graph them). > Can this be prevented one way or another? login.conf
