Re: [cobalt-users] The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request

[Paul Ferwerda <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I set up an hourly cron job to monitor free and email me when there were less than 3000 free pages.

Over the last couple of weeks it emailed me:

05:01 AM 10/13
08:01 AM 10/13
04:01 PM 10/13
12:01 AM 10/14
01:01 PM 10/14
11:01 AM 10/15
06:01 PM 10/16
10:01 PM 10/16
04:01 AM 10/19
05:01 AM 10/19
08:01 AM 10/19
04:01 AM 10/20
08:01 AM 10/20
10:01 AM 10/20
11:01 AM 10/20
01:01 PM 10/20
08:01 PM 10/20
11:01 PM 10/20
05:01 AM 10/24

We started having memory problems awhile ago after installing a Sun patch but I wasn't sure how to go about figuring out how to diagnose the problem so setting the box to reboot every 6 hours seemed like a sledgehammer way to deal with a tack but I wasn't sure what else to do.


At 11:28 PM 10/24/2002 +1300, craig wrote:


>> Well the site mysteriously came back after I asked the ISP to check it.  After telnet was turned on they were able to telnet into port 110 and 80 (which I didn't realize was possible). I took a look at the messages file and I see the following messages right before the system became unavailable:
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>> Oct 21 20:30:51 www kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for httpd...
>> Oct 21 20:30:53 www last message repeated 307 times
>> Oct 21 20:30:53 www kernel: Unable to load interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2
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>Its running low on memory here type free and see what you see
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>the modproble stuff and switch to run level etc is rebooting
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>> Oct 23 22:31:39 www modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-13
>> Oct 23 22:31:39 www modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-13
>> Oct 24 04:31:40 www sshd[325]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 23.