What is memory utilization when it fails? Paging rates? Swapping?
One very big possibility is that the machine is becoming memory starved,
and then is spending all its cycles handling swapping/paging. This
desperation swapping is nasty but easy to fix; if it is the case more
memory is the cure.
- rick -
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Matthews, John wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a NIS & NFS server running a stock Red Hat 6.1 distribution.
> The server is beginning to stop working more and more frequently now. NIS
> used to mess up once or twice a week, but now it appears to go down two to
> three times a day. I've seen the problem sometimes be related to
> "portmapper" not functioning, other times I see that nfsd appears to
> disappear, or ypserv will be running, but it won't be working.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this sort of erratic
> behavior? I've looked through the logs, but I haven't seen anything
> pointing to a problem. The services appear to just die without warning.
> Are there known issues with NIS & NFS not working well on Red Hat 6.1?
>
> The server is beginning to see heavier usage now, so I guess that is
> causing it to fail more often.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> John
>
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