Re: [cobalt-users] crashes

[Mat Kovach <mkovach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:52:20AM -0900, Gary Peltola wrote:
: 1. Where do i start in looking for answers

Well, you started in the right spot, the log files....

: 2. what do these log entrys mean (they are cut and pasted from various
: times)

I'll skip the named (bind) error messages, while those might be part
of the cause, I want to focus on something. 
: Mar  9 09:27:49 ns inetd[423]: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

This is not good.  Basically inetd is attemping to create a process and 
it can.  There are serveral causes for this:  Lack of Memory, too many process
running, huge amounts of inetd connections.

How often does this happen? Daily, Weekly, Monthly?

I would create a crontask that e-mails the following in and see if that helps
find a cause.  Something like:

#!/bin/bash

TMPFILE="/tmp/crashdebug"

netstat -a >> $TMPFILE
ps aux >> $TMPFILE
free >> $TMPFILE
df >> $TMPFILE

cat $TMPFILE | mail -s 'crashdebugging' emailaddress@xxxxxxxxxxxx

rm -f $TMPFILE

exit 0


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Mat Kovach                                      mkovach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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