Networker

Re: [Networker] Kernel Panic problem

2008-01-21 15:19:23
Subject: Re: [Networker] Kernel Panic problem
From: Kevin West <kevin.west AT UNE.EDU DOT AU>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:16:21 -0500
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:50:48 +0200, Dag Nygren <dag AT NEWTECH DOT FI> wrote:

>On Monday 21 January 2008, Kevin West wrote:
>> Hi Dag,
>>
>> I believe you maybe correct with nsrmmd, there are no core dumps as I think
>> the server freezes before they can be written out.
>
>If it complains about "out of memory" at the first instance, it is NOT the bug
>I am talking about, as in most installations you need 5-10 "leftover" shared
>memory instances from nsrmmd before it runs out of memory.
>
>> It had two kernel panic's on saturday, one at 7:00pm & another at 10:00pm
>> after getting everything going again. And it has been going fine since.
>>
>> I have ordered another 8Gb of memory for the server, I hope this will help,
>> but at this stage I am not confident.
>
>I don't think it will help....
>
>As it has now been running for some time: Any process that uses a lot of
>memory? (And keeps growing)

I've been watching "top" and "watch -d free -m" at home when the backups are
running. Everything is still looking O.K.


>Output from ipcs -a reasonable?

Yes, I was checking this last night as well, all looks O.K.


>Best
>Dag
>
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