On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 07:52:24PM -0600, M. Smith wrote:
[...]
> However, roughly every 2 weeks, the firewall PC locks up and I get an
> "out of memory" error. You can escape back to the prompt, but the
> machine then won't take a "shutdown -r(or h) -now" command. A reset or
> power recycle is the only option.
[...]
Hm, could be bad RAM (try swapping SIMMs for a laugh) or a program with
a memory leak. As you say it happens more or less periodically - did you
try to log into that machine let's say after 10 days and run things like
top to see whether there is some unusal memory usage by some process?
Thomas
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