Re: Server REALLY slow after console messages

2006-06-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 01:04:22AM -0400, Derek Martin wrote: the admins can catch it before it gets out of hand and kill the offending process(es). Please allow me to illustrate: thanks for a great little explanation of swapping and what it means. A signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Server REALLY slow after console messages

2006-06-28 Thread Simon
Kernel 2.6.8-12-em64t-p4-smp On 6/28/06, Hemlock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:07:02 +1200, Simon wrote Hi There, Can anyone have a look at this screenshot and give me a glimmer of what is going on here? This server is responding to pings, but all services are 'stuck', i

Server REALLY slow after console messages

2006-06-27 Thread Simon
Hi There, Can anyone have a look at this screenshot and give me a glimmer of what is going on here? This server is responding to pings, but all services are 'stuck', i can login, but it times out after 60 seconds and typing is REALLY slow... http://gremin.orcon.net.nz/mx.JPG Thanks for any

Re: Server REALLY slow after console messages

2006-06-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Simon wrote: Hi There, Can anyone have a look at this screenshot and give me a glimmer of what is going on here? This server is responding to pings, but all services are 'stuck', i can login, but it times out after 60 seconds and typing is

Re: Server REALLY slow after console messages

2006-06-27 Thread Simon
On 6/28/06, Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You've run out of RAM. Hmm... Could this be some sort of memory leak or something? Would anyone be able to offer any path of checking or solving this issue? Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Server REALLY slow after console messages

2006-06-27 Thread Derek Martin
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 09:37:07AM +1200, Simon wrote: On 6/28/06, Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You've run out of RAM. Hmm... Could this be some sort of memory leak or something? Would anyone be able to offer any path of checking or solving this issue? Run top, hit 'F' to

Re: Server REALLY slow after console messages

2006-06-27 Thread Simon
On 6/28/06, Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 09:37:07AM +1200, Simon wrote: On 6/28/06, Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You've run out of RAM. Hmm... Could this be some sort of memory leak or something? Would anyone be able to offer any path of checking

Re: Server REALLY slow after console messages

2006-06-27 Thread Derek Martin
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 09:52:42AM +1200, Simon wrote: OK, i had to restart the server as there was critical services running on it... After rebooting and running the commands above: Unfortunately it's too late... To see what is causing the problem, you need to look at it while the problem is

Re: Server REALLY slow after console messages

2006-06-27 Thread Simon
On 6/28/06, Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 09:52:42AM +1200, Simon wrote: OK, i had to restart the server as there was critical services running on it... After rebooting and running the commands above: Unfortunately it's too late... To see what is causing the

Re: Server REALLY slow after console messages

2006-06-27 Thread Jo Shields
Simon wrote: Hi There, Can anyone have a look at this screenshot and give me a glimmer of what is going on here? This server is responding to pings, but all services are 'stuck', i can login, but it times out after 60 seconds and typing is REALLY slow... http://gremin.orcon.net.nz/mx.JPG

Re: Server REALLY slow after console messages

2006-06-27 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 09:07:02AM +1200, Simon wrote: Hi There, Can anyone have a look at this screenshot and give me a glimmer of what is going on here? This server is responding to pings, but all services are 'stuck', i can login, but it times out after 60 seconds and typing is REALLY

Re: Server REALLY slow after console messages

2006-06-27 Thread Derek Martin
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 05:24:02PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: You're out of memory, just like the messages say. Presumably some process on that server has used it all, including all your swap. Eventually the process should be killed automatically or the program might segfault. If you can get

Re: Server REALLY slow after console messages

2006-06-27 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 11:02:39PM -0400, Derek Martin wrote: On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 05:24:02PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: You're out of memory, just like the messages say. Presumably some process on that server has used it all, including all your swap. Eventually the process should be

Re: Server REALLY slow after console messages

2006-06-27 Thread Derek Martin
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 11:29:27PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/spool/swapfile bs=1024 count=262144 swapon /var/spool/swapfile Realistically, this isn't likely to help... He's already used up 5GB of virtual memory -- 2GB of RAM and 3 GB of swap space. At

Re: Server REALLY slow after console messages

2006-06-27 Thread Hemlock
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:07:02 +1200, Simon wrote Hi There, Can anyone have a look at this screenshot and give me a glimmer of what is going on here? This server is responding to pings, but all services are 'stuck', i can login, but it times out after 60 seconds and typing is REALLY