Re: [cobalt-users] [RAQ3] Server down - suggestions please?!??

["Dylan Smith" <dyls@xxxxxxx>]

> Later today, the box went competely nuts again, and used all 192Mb of
physical RAM and again, about 10% of available swap.
>
> Now I have a box that won't start mail or named on startup, or from the
shell, plus about 60 hosting clients on the box, all on IP hosting, and none
of their sites can be seen - HELP!!!!

Find out what process is doing it. Do a top (if it's a cpu-intensive process
doing the work) or look at the output of ps -auxww.

Then kill the process responsible.

I had someone do the same when they accidentally had a bad CGI script which
got into an infinite "use" loop, using all the memory. Kill -9 on the
process solved the problem...