How big is your swap partition, and how much physical ram does the system
have ? The relation of these two factors weigh heavily in oom vm kills.
--Matt
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 04:19:04PM -0500, Steve Gulick wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mikkel L. Ellertson
> > Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 3:36 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Anyone know what is causing this?
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Steve Gulick wrote:
> >
> > > I am having a problem on my RH6.2 box. Whenever I run a command I get my
> > > system going whacky. Heres what just happened when I went to update my
> > > locate db.
> > >
> > > # locate -u
> > > VM: killing process locate
> > > VM: killing process bash
> > > VM: killing process login
> > > VM: killing process klogd
> > > VM: killing process sh
> > > VM: killing process crond
> > >
> > > Any idea what is causing this and how I fix it? I just spent 3
> > days setting
> > > this server up and I hate to start over.
> > >
> > > TIA
> > > Steve
> > >
> > >
> > For some reasion the system is running out of resources, and is killing
> > off processes as a result. What does "ps ax", "top", or "free" show?
> >
> > Is this server connected to the internet? Could it have been cracked?
> >
> > Mikkel
> > --
> >
>
> It has not been cracked that's 100% for sure. Never been hooked up to
> anything. I just started building it the other day. I am following the book
> Securing and Optimizing Linux RH edition.
>
> I'm not sure what processes were running but will check when it happens
> again. Right now I only have 22 process running and no servers installed at
> all. Bare bones box.
>
> Maybe I tweeked some of the settings too high. I'll play around and see what
> I can figure out. I'll be in touch
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
>
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