I recently had a development instance of Riak get killed by the kernel
OOM killer, and (on Ubuntu 12.04) it seems like the only place where
this was logged was /var/log/kern.log.

Mike

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 6:31 AM, Ian Plosker <[email protected]> wrote:
> Staffan,
>
> Is there anything in the kernel ring buffer?  You can check it using the
> dmesg command.
>
> -Ian
>
> On Sep 13, 2012, at 13:10, Staffan Einarsson
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Kersten,
>
> That is exactly my problem. Normally I have something to go on from the
> error and crash log files, but in this case they are both empty. There is
> neither any crash dump file. The console.log file contains the same
> information as the erlang.log.1 file I pasted, minus a few lines.
>
> I'm not sure what would cause an Erlang VM to fail so abruptly without
> saying anything. Is the name clash mentioned at the top of the pasted file
> something that could cause this?
>
> Kindly,
>
> -- Staffan Einarsson
> Engineering
>
> Skype: staffan.einarsson
> Phone: +46 70 426 07 46
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>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Kresten Krab Thorup <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> What you send does not seem to indicate any errors other than the "erlang
>> has closed" message.  Isn't there something else you can share with us?  a
>> crash log or something?
>>
>> Kresten
>>
>> On Sep 13, 2012, at 11:32 AM, Staffan Einarsson
>> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I'm having a problem with the Erlang VM going down for a Riak node that
>> receives a MapReduce request.
>>
>> My setup is this:
>>
>> I run three Riak 1.2.0 nodes, each on an Ubuntu Server 12.04 guest OS on
>> VirtualBox 4.1.20. The host OS is Windows. I send requests through our own
>> Riak client library, (uGameDB for the Unity game engine), which uses the PB
>> interface. When my test script sends a MapReduce request to one of the
>> nodes, the node fails instantly.
>>
>> The error.log and crash.log files are empty. The erlang.log.1 file says:
>> http://pastebin.com/1LHqYCaB
>>
>> I have tested this with different versions of our client library,
>> specifically with versions that have previously been confirmed to work, to
>> rule out any error on the client side. I have also tried with different
>> numbers of nodes, and it is only the node that receives the MapReduce
>> request that fails.
>>
>> Any help is greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Kindly,
>>
>> -- Staffan Einarsson
>> Engineering
>>
>> Skype: staffan.einarsson
>> Phone: +46 70 426 07 46
>> http://muchdifferent.com<http://muchdifferent.com/>
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