Re: [cobalt-users] Investigateing why a cobalt "crashes"

[Paul Ferwerda <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:56 PM 6/19/2002 -0300, you wrote:
>One Raq3 cobalt is going down... the server aparently run out of resourses
>and just stops responding all services, they seem to be there but are
>"dead".
>I already make some adjustements trying to avoid this run out of resorces,
>but the server went down again. Can you people give advices of what and
>where search to debug this problem? How can I see if there is some script
>that is makeing this trouble, or haw can I say if a particular website is
>making the server go down.
>I have read taht cobalts raq3 have troubles when they run out of memory. Can
>tell me if I can configure limits to the executions of scripts ? I have
>tested a couple of apache configurations:
>
>RLimitCPU
>RLimitMEM   < ths one I have to comment it because it disable all the CGIs
>script, don´t know why
>RLimitNPROC
>
>
>The server has 128 MB, can give advise about the better values of ths
>parameters. Can give advise about further configuration?
>More info: the server has MySQl too, PHP. Advises about restricting the
>resources usage of them will be welcome.Thanks

I had this happening all the time. I did some investigating but didn't get vary far.  I took the shotgun approach and set up a cron job to reboot the system every 6 hours just so the system would go into limbo on me.  The hosting service was getting peeved with the repeated requests to reboot the server. The server runs PHP and MySQL and has 256 MB.