[lug] server memory woes (3rd attempt!)

[Michael Belanger]

Thanks for the responses!

John Hernandez wrote:
> Depending what tools you're using to monitor available memory, this is 
> probably just normal behavior.  The kernel will generally suck up 
> physical memory for things like file caching, etc.

[mrb at porbeagle ~]$ free
              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       3058568    2152228     906340          0     159476    1732016
-/+ buffers/cache:     260736    2797832
Swap:      6289320          0    6289320





> Does it hang hard, meaning you need to press the reset button to reboot? 
>  If so, it sounds like a hardware problem.  Try running memtest86 from 
> the bootloader.  Be forewarned - it takes a while to run.

Well... you can still ping it, but it will no longer server 
mail/dns/etc..  the console (off a kvm) no longer responds as well. The 
only solution was to use the power button.

No hardware or server errors seem to show up in any of the log files.

Most recently, the last entry on the frozen console was a denied request 
to port 123 (ntp).  The AMANDA processes appeared to have come and gone 
without incident before the system froze once again.


the weekend before last I had ran memtest86 (only did one pass at the 
time -- it took an hour).  But it reported no problems.

-m
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