SC1425 Server Hangs

[Gareth Bult]

Ok,

When the system has gone down (in at least one instance) , Swap was <
100Mb (of 4G) and load average was less than 1.0 .. 

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On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 12:42 -0700, Mann, Andrew wrote:
>                 Just because you have a lot of ram free now doesn’t
> mean you will when the system fails.  I have a system with 4GB of ram
> and 2GB of swap that runs ntop.  When started, ntop uses about 100 MB
> among all processes.  After about 4 weeks, if not restarted, it will
> use all 6 GB of RAM + Swap and the system shows the same symptoms you
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>                 Regardless of what the problem is, you’re far less
> likely to see any symptoms now than you will at the time of system
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> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Gareth Bult
> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 1:44 PM
> To: Jeroen
> Cc: linux-poweredge at dell.com
> Subject: Re: SC1425 Server Hangs
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> It has 4Gb of RAM, it's not swapping out anything worth talking
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> (possibly 100k)
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> On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 11:45 +0000, Jeroen wrote: 
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> Try monitoring if it's running out of memory and swapspace, if you have a
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> memory leaking application somewhere it won't matter how much memory you
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> Van: Gareth Bult <gareth at encryptec.net>
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> Onderwerp: SC1425 Server Hangs
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> Datum: 14/10/06 08:15
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> > We have a number of SC1425's, one in particular runs as a thin client
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