I am running a Valinux Redhat version 2.2.14-5.0.14b. My system was running for 21 days continuously. Tonight, I was using Netscape-Communicator when my machine started behaving erratically. I had to kill Netscape from the command prompt, and there were 3 Netscape processes running. Every time I tried to start Netscape again, I wound up having to kill it from the prompt, and then I started getting core dumps and could not even do a 'df' or an 'ls' without a core dump and receiving an error message similar to the one recorded in /var/log/messages:
Nov 19 19:02:53 localhost httpd: httpd: error in loading shared libraries: libcrypt.so.1: cannot map zero-fill pages: Cannot allocate memory Nov 19 19:02:53 localhost httpd: startup failed When I could do a 'free' I found that all my swap space had been used up on my 256 meg machine, as well as most other memory. I believe I got an out of memory error from the shell prompt. I also got watchdog errors in my email that warned me that my httpd and sendmail processes had "been restarted or something has gone wrong." I wound up rebooting the system and it is behaving fine now, not exhibiting any problems. Did I just have a process that went wild, out of control, and brought the house down? Is there something I should watch for to see if something is not quite right such that this could happen again? I've had this machine for 2 years without such an incident and haven't been making any changes recently. Any help appreciated. Gary _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
