Ralf, ugly as it is, you could have a cron job restart inetd every five minutes. I have heard that there is a debian package to ensure that daemons are always running, I have forgotten the name of course.
Perhaps you could check ebay, ubid, etc for used memory? On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 11:17:13AM +0200, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > Hi there, > > can anyone point me to a solution for the following problem? > > I have several machines running as Internet servers, mainly FTP and HTTP. > They're relatively low-end machines (P100 and 486-133 with 48 resp. 64 MB > RAM.) Every couple of days I have to restart inetd or other stand-alone > services (like syslogd, klogd, snmpd, apache.) > > I'm pretty sure the reason why the processes fail is that memory usage is > too high (it's *definitely* not due to memory problems, like failing RAM > modules or overclocked CPUs.) Memory usage is permanently about 99%, swap > usage only a few percent. But obviously processes are dying because they > can't allocate "real" memory?! > > Of course a work-around would be to reduce the no. of concurrent FTP users > that I allow, but I cannot easily do that. I simply cannot accept that > services die as easily as they do. Isn't there a way to prevent this? I need > a high availability of my machines, and having to constantly check and > possibly restart services is not acceptable. :-( > > Thanks, > > Ralf > > > -- > Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. > http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ The Choice /V\ > of a GNU /( )\ > Generation ^^-^^ > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
