Hi Adam,
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 02:01:10AM +0100, Adam Sweet wrote:
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.
Any ideas when it started happening?
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 don't think it will be RAM exhaustion then, sadly.
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.
Sorry, this is a new one to me. Is it always apache2 task that gets
blocked?
As you might imagine, I'm running quite a few Debian Lenny VMs under
Xen at BitFolk for infrastructure purposes and I'm not seeing this
myself.
What are your kernel boot arguments?
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.
We could try moving your VPS to another host. Probably worth trying
that before migrating/reinstalling.
Cheers,
Andy
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