[ale] server question

[Sage]

Hi Leonard! *wave* I guess you haven't killed anyone at ATT yet? Did anyone ever come out to repair your lines? The guy who installed ours said that the ATT repair dept. was understaffed with clueless boneheads.

Free disk space? none. It looks like mysql may be what's eating it up, but, like I said, I could be wrong.

Ummm...this was rather stupid of me, but I don't recall what the kernal panic message was...I'll see if Bob remembers. As I recall, though, it didn't offer a whole lot in the way of information. However, I remember we checked syslog, and it offered no clues, other than the system ran out of real memory (not virtual memory).

The only message that has been consistent is "Can't find a free page". Sound familiar to anyone? What I'm finding really weird is the periods between downtimes decreasing exponentially. When I get to work, I'll try logging on to that piece of crap, and see if I can find anything helpful.

Thanks!

-Indira

-Sage


On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:49:04 -0400 Leonard Thornton <Leonard at Intelis-inc.net> wrote:

The first thing I would check is the free disk space.

Secondly, what are your panic messages telling you?  What about 
syslog?  Enquiring minds want to know....

At 11:34 AM 6/13/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Heyla, all!
>
>We have a server doing a really odd thing. Since November, the time this 
>stupid thing stays up without a reboot is decreasing exponentially. It 
>started off having to reboot every four months, and uptime without a 
>reboot is now about every 6 hours. Last week, we finally had to set a 
>crontab entry to automatically reboot the stupid thing every 24 hours, 
>then every 12, then every 8, and now, every four. (I got a bit ill having 
>to run downtown 4 days in a row) I predict the damn thing won't live 
>through the weekend.
>
>It seems to have an awful lot of mysql processes running when it's up. The 
>mysql version is 3.21.33b. Here lately, we've also been getting kernal 
>panic messages. The kernal version is 2.0.36. (Am I spelling kernal 
>right?) Yes, I know it's as old as hell, should have been upgraded, yadda, 
>yadda, yadda. That would be the client's call, and their option was just 
>to replace the whole box, but they can't seem to locate the people who did 
>the old machine, and we're kind of running out of time.
>
>Question is; has anyone come across a problem like this, and was there a 
>solution? It looks like it may be possible that the mysql processes aren't 
>getting killed after users log out, but I may be wrong.
>
>Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
>-Sage
>
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The difficult while you wait.....the impossible overnight.

Leonard Thornton
Intelis, Inc.
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Suite 30
Norcross, GA  30092

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