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

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From: "Zeffie" <cobaltlist@xxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 7:37 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Memory is being heavily used - Raq4


> > 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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>
>

Thanks Zeffie,
That seems to have worked. At least for the time being. Server is now up and
running after rebooting for almost 2 days and memory usage is down to
35-50%. Can't believe (or maybe I can) that I didn't cop it that the server
had not actually been restarted when I stated it had.............
Declan.