Re: [cobalt-users] Memory is being heavily used - Raq4

["Zeffie" <cobaltlist@xxxxxxxx>]

> Over the past week or so I have been receiving messages from my server
> stating that  "The memory is being heavily used." When I go to the GUI is
> "Total memory on the system is 259308 KB
> Free available memory is 3684 KB
> Used memory is 255624 KB which is 98 percent of the total memory"
> I did a quick search in the archives, and ran the 'top' command, and this
is
> 9:33am  up 108 days, 23:12,  1 user,  load average: 0.04, 0.11, 0.09
> 83 processes: 82 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states:  1.9% user,  5.5% system,  0.0% nice, 92.5% idle
> Mem:   127776K av,   86128K used,   41648K free,   93140K shrd,    4984K
> buff
> Swap:  131532K av,   26820K used,  104712K free                   31056K
> Remedies I have tried include, restarting the server and restarting MySQL.
> My Raq4 has about 50 virtual sites, but most of these would be lightly
used.
> Any suggestions?

LOL  Bloatware, page thrash, memory leak, Zope :)  sounds scarry....

you said you restarted the server...  and top (the only peice of data we
have...  grr...) shows that the server has been up 108 days...  huummmmm  ya
think maybe it didn't reboot???  it didn't...  what happens (for various
reasons) is you use up all your memory for whatever reason...  and some
things start getting stupid and other things just mess up....  long story
short you need to do the following....

YOU NEED TO BE VERY CAREFULL HOW YOU DO THIS!!!!

1 shutdown everything you know how to
2 try to kill the things that are stuck
3 try to unmount /home
4 try to reboot again...  (if you don't know how... don't even try this)

if that fails you need to call your isp and have them power cycle it.

Since I sit here all day monitoring raqs all over the world everyday I know
that the long term solution to your memory problems is to monitor the box
and restart services as needed...  in that you might find a variety of
reasons for the problem...   including the owner being to cheap to buy more
memory...!!!
Do you hear me out there my wonderful customers!!!!!!
(Please respond with more memory) :)

oh and your second post... you have 128,  the disk dosen't count...  we
never want to use that slow thing...

Zeffie
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