[cobalt-users] RAQ4 falling Over Logrotate -- I need help !!

["Gary Pacitti" <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am pretty sure that logrotate is causing our server to crash, however
I am unsure how to fix can anyone help !. I posted previous as I thought
the problem may be due to DOS problem but I eliminated that now.

Logrotate crashes our server every night. We have upgraded from 256MB to
512MB however this does not seem to solve the problem. Can anyone advise
me how to solve the problem? Below is a copy of top report seconds prior
to crash.
 
The problem always happens after about 40 minutes into logrotate, with
the parsereport.pl running. 
 
10:34pm  up  2:32,  3 users,  load average: 1.29, 1.18, 1.04 
92 processes: 88 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped 
CPU states: 87.7% user, 12.2% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle 
Mem:   517104K av,  218204K used,  298900K free,  233152K shrd,   39996K
buff 
Swap:  131532K av,       0K used,  131532K free                   73692K
cached 
 
  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME
COMMAND 
 9312 root      14   0 10096 9.9M  1364 R       0 87.6  1.9   3:17
parseReport.pl 
 6629 root       5   0   904  904   676 R       0  2.9  0.1   1:15 top 
    1 root       0   0   472  472   400 S       0  0.0  0.0   0:03 init 
    2 root       0   0     0    0     0 SW      0  0.0  0.0   0:00
kflushd 
    3 root       0   0     0    0     0 SW      0  0.0  0.0   0:00
kupdate 
 


After the server reboots I get the following output from top until I
reboot server again !!
 
 11:00pm  up 25 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.25, 0.13, 0.20 
72 processes: 71 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped 
CPU states:  0.7% user,  1.7% system,  0.0% nice, 97.4% idle 
Mem:   517104K av,  509828K used,    7276K free,  149472K shrd,  379144K
buff 
Swap:  131532K av,       0K used,  131532K free                   35804K
cached