Re: [cobalt-users] (RaQ2) Server dies.

[Ariel Manzur <punto@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi.. thanks for your help..

At 21:30 22/05/2000 -0400, Gordon wrote:
>On Mon, 22 May 2000, Zeffie wrote:
>> > I admin this RaQ2 server, and during this last month, we have to reboot
>> the
>> > server every 3 days. Ping response is OK, we can't connect using ftp,
>> > telnet, or http, smtp, pop3, etc.
>> > The other day I happened to be logged on the server, and I got a list of
>> > the processes running ("ps aux", http://www.freeweb.com.ar/procesos.txt),
>> > the list is big, and a lot of processes were using 99% of the CPU.
>> Raq2
>> > Ariel.
>> 
>> I would guess first that Miva is having a problem.
>
>Ouch, zombies galore, and 50+ httpd's , hmm, any disk errors in the logs?
>other than httpd loops that's the only thing that's gonna cause so many
>zombies (there's a bunch of perl something at the bottom going nuts too..

Where could I find those logs? Now that you mention it, one of the
directories on /home/sites was like this:

?---------   0 root    root       0 Dec 31 1969 site20

And now its gone.. Any idea on how to fix/prevent this?

Thanks! bye..

Ariel.