Re: [mv] Bad system behavior

[cfm@maine.com]

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On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 05:45:25PM -0700, Ryan Hertz wrote:
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> At 09:42 AM 6/20/00 , you wrote:
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> >We've been having trouble with a Linux server that is running minivend 3. 
> >We're not really sure  whether any of the problems have anything to do 
> >with minivend per se, however we've observed the following behaviors:
> >
> >if you do a ps, the entry for minivend has a bunch of blank spaces 
> >appended to it. the number of spaces is not consistent. a few days ago it 
> >was several dozen, today it is 9 (we restarted minivend in the interim, 
> >because the minivend server seemed to have completely hanged).
> >
> >the http daemon occasionally seems to fail -- last week we discovered all 
> >the child processes had died, & no new ones had been spawned. don't know 
> >if that has anything to do with minivend or not.
> 
> I would take a look at the machines vital statistics.  How's the RAM?  Do 
> you have swap space?  I'm not a Linux expert, but it all sounds like 
> "symptoms" -- something else is going wrong.

If web server dies, it is bigger than minivend.  "occasionally seems to
fail" is a bit vague; you don't know for sure?  If you are very confident
of your system installation, start swapping chips.  If it will take you
a couple of weeks to know if things are any different, just swap the 
machine and play with it offline.

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Christopher F. Miller, Publisher                             cfm@maine.com
MaineStreet Communications, Inc         208 Portland Road, Gray, ME  04039
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