Hi everyone
My VPS running Debian Lenny has recently started to crash frequently,
about 6 times in the last week. I've had out of memory conditions in the
past, though reasonably infrequently, so that was my first I thought.
I've bumped my RAM allocation, added extra swap and removed a few
services which weren't strictly necessary but the crashing continues. My
resource graphs don't suggest any memory usage build up before the crash
or anything else untoward going on and the system logs report nothing,
it seems to just go more or less instantaneously.
I managed to capture some of the console output when I got to the machine:
http://pastebin.com/TjZRCebQ
But it had been dead for about 6 hours as I'd been out for the evening,
so it's possible the crucial part was lost before I got to it.
I'm not much of an expert on interpreting kernel panics so I thought I'd
ask if anybody has any greater insight on the cause or how I can capture
the output to disk.
At this point, my only options seem to be to migrate services off to
another system until the system stops crashing, or add more RAM, or
start afresh on a new VPS to see if it goes away.
Regards,
Adam Sweet
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