Re: [cobalt-developers] Swap Memory Problem - Raq4

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Skyhound wrote:
> I have a Raq4 that's been giving me problems for months.
>
> The server starts using swap memory and soon after slows down to a crawl and
> then ends up locking up.
>
> I am forced to reboot each of these times in order to get it back up.
> Sometimes it will stay out of swap for 12 hours,
> sometimes just 30 minutes later. But the pattern of whenever it starts to
> use even a byte of swap it crashes, is consistent.
> It doesn't crash right away if it uses a little swap, but as soon as it gets
> up to a high number it dies.
>
> I suppose this could be due to high server usage, and I've been trying to
> monitor MySQL queries that I think might be contributing to the problem, but
> no pattern has shown up. Below is an output of a monitoring script I put in
> cron, these are the last outputs before crashes.

  What is the ROM version, as that may have something to do with the
  problem. In a root shell prompt 'cmos -c romrev'

  Do the log files show anything, just before the crash?

Gerald
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