[LON-CAPA-admin] Runaway memory?

[Guy Albertelli II]

Hi Mark,

> Has anyone had any runaway memory events on their access servers?

Is it individual httpds becoming huge? Or just a large number of
httpds?

Or is it some other process becoming huge?

> 
> The out of memory killer killed my processes running on one of our
> access servers during a moderately high load time. I'm running a
> reasonably up to date CENTOS 5 version (the latest kernel update has not
> yet been installed).
> 
> This may be concurrent with students trying to upload large files for a
> lab report.
> 
> The memory started spiking about an hour before the crash. I began
> getting lowmem_reserve errors on the console.
> 
> Any advice is welcome!
> 
> Mark
> 
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