Re: My Redhat linux is forced to reboot for every 7 or 10 days.

2000-10-18 Thread Kiran Kumar M
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Kirk wrote: Is there a runaway process? What does top show? 8:17am up 22:58, 5 users, load average: 0.15, 0.16, 0.11 76 processes: 74 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 3.9% user, 5.9% system, 0.0% nice, 90.1% idle Mem: 971600K av, 922356K

Re: My Redhat linux is forced to reboot for every 7 or 10 days.

2000-10-17 Thread Charles Galpin
run 'date/tmp/top.log;top -b -n 1/tmp/top.log' every 5 minutes from cron and you will have a log you can review after thsi happens again. Then you can at least determine whether or not it's the kernel leaking memory, or some other program. I'm not sure how to get top to sort results by memory

Re: My Redhat linux is forced to reboot for every 7 or 10 days.

2000-10-16 Thread Chuck Mead
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Kiran Kumar M spewed into the bitstream: KKM KKMHi, KKM KKMI am using redhat 6.1, Kernel 2.2.5-15smp, for the services like DNS, KKMMail, and Web, etc. I am forced to restart the system for every 7 to 10 KKMdays because of lack of memory or system is not able to handle any

Re: My Redhat linux is forced to reboot for every 7 or 10 days.

2000-10-16 Thread Kirk
Is there a runaway process? What does top show? Kirk At 06:29 PM 10/16/00 +0530, you wrote: Hi, I am using redhat 6.1, Kernel 2.2.5-15smp, for the services like DNS, Mail, and Web, etc. I am forced to restart the system for every 7 to 10 days because of lack of memory or system is not able to

Re: My Redhat linux is forced to reboot for every 7 or 10 days.

2000-10-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Kiran Kumar M wrote: I am using redhat 6.1, Kernel 2.2.5-15smp First, I'd update that kernel to a more recent version. Get one from either a 6.2 or 7.0 Red Hat mirror. (Though, if you grab the package from Red Hat 7.0, you'll also have to update rpm...) process. It is

RE: My Redhat linux is forced to reboot for every 7 or 10 days.

2000-10-16 Thread Jamin Collins
Are you sure that the system's memory is good? I would suggest the memtest86 program. A simple search of freshmeat should reveal it for you. Jamin W. Collins -Original Message- From: Kiran Kumar M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 7:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: My Redhat linux is forced to reboot for every 7 or 10 days.

2000-10-16 Thread Kiran Kumar M
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Dave Wreski wrote: Lack of memory, It is not allowing one to shutdown the and restart through OS, So I need to switch off and on, whenever it happens. How do you know it's out of memory? Is there swap being used? In my mail I clearly mentioned the type of

Re: Re: My Redhat linux is forced to reboot for every 7 or 10 days.

2000-10-16 Thread Kirk
try these links for updated kernel RPMS: Offical RedHat 2.2.16 Kernel look in the directory for you cpu class ie i686, i586, etc: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/updates/6.1/ Excellent Contributed Kernel 2.2.17 ftp://duke.eburg.com/pub/linux/redhat-6.x-mycontrib/RPMS/ Kirk Is there any patches,