RE: [cobalt-users] "Unable to allocate" problem on raq4

["Support" <support@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

> My RAQ4 is hanging every 7 days, more or less... When it 
> hangs i can ping but i cannot get http, ftp, ssh etc.  
> Rebooting solves the problem every time, but i am worried 
> because i think it is a memory leak or something similar. 
> Looking the logs the only error i see is in the error log of apache:
> 
> FATAL:  erealloc():  Unable to allocate 15360 bytes
> FATAL:  erealloc():  Unable to allocate 245760 bytes
> [Thu Jan  8 04:20:54 2004] [error] (32)Broken pipe: accept: (client
> socket)
> [Thu Jan  8 04:20:54 2004] [error] (32)Broken pipe: accept: (client
> socket)
> FATAL:  emalloc():  Unable to allocate 48 bytes
> Ouch!  malloc failed in malloc_block()
> FATAL:  erealloc():  Unable to allocate 15360 bytes


It sounds like it is simply runing out of memory and at 4:00am I would
think it is when the logs are rotating.

Is the box fully patched as there was a problem that was fixed by Kernel
Update 2.0.1 C33 for servers under heavy load.

I would add more ram.


Thanks

Mark Roebuck

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