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[Grahame Bowland]

On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 04:38:52PM +0800, Leighton Haynes wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 04:34:31PM +0800, James Andrewartha wrote:
> > On Tue, 1 May 2001, Jean-Paul Blaquiere wrote:
> > May  1 13:53:46 mooneye sendmail[364]: rejecting connections on daemon MTA: load average: 105
> > [snip]
> > May  1 14:00:44 mooneye kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for apache...
> > May  1 14:00:50 mooneye kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for apache...
> > May  1 14:00:50 mooneye kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ntpd...
> > May  1 14:00:50 mooneye kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ntpd...
> > May  1 14:00:50 mooneye kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for socks5...
> > May  1 14:00:50 mooneye last message repeated 9 times
> > May  1 13:54:06 mooneye sendmail[2006]: f415aOP02006: lost input channel from root at elysium.uwa.edu.au [130.95.128.2] to MTA after mail
> > May  1 13:54:07 mooneye sendmail[2006]: f415aOP02006: from=<owner-fob at neubauten.iinet.net.au>, size=463, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=root at elysium.uwa.edu.au [130.95.128.2]
> > May  1 15:03:23 mooneye syslogd 1.3-3#33.1: restart.
> > 
> > Basically some weird VM issue ... There's another .5gig IDE disk in
> > mooneye now, which I put in Friday night. Considering mooneye only has
> > 50meg of swap atm, and has a 92% full /, I'm going to put some more swap
> > on this, plus some other part of the file system ... maybe /var or
> > something? Probably /usr/flame as well.
> 
> Evil thought of the day - it didn't die from the excess load of
> the system trying to deliver all the pending mail did it ;)

Upgrading to 2.2.19 tends to fix this one.

- Grahame