Hi Larry,
By what mechanism are you paged when the memory utilization gets
excessive?
I'm thinking that if it is a script or something, you could have the
script dump stats to a file at the same time it pages you so that you
can view a snapshot of what's happening at that time.
Just a thought...
b
On Feb 25, 2004, at 3:23 PM, Larry Brown wrote:
> Hello all,
> I'm a newbie to the list but I've been around Linux for a while. I
> have
> one of my servers monitored for excessive cpu and memory usage. When
> they
> exceed limits it generates me an e-mail. Periodically I get paged for
> excessive memory utilization around 3pm and I hop onto the server and
> start
> looking around for a process that is active with a high amount of
> memory
> usage. I never find anything out of the ordinary. It is a web/mysql
> server
> running rh8. The server doesn't seem to be bogged down because of it,
> but
> I'm curious as to what is going on. I have 256mb physical and a 256mb
> swap.
> I have at most a dozen people on the site at any given time and I
> checked
> netstat and there couldn't have been more than 3 or 4 people on the
> machine.
>
> I also checked my cron entries looking for one that runs around 3 pm
> and
> there is none. Everything runs in the evening in the exception of
> some that
> run regularly all day long.
>
> TIA
>
> Larry
>
> PS. I will try to attend the next meeting. How late do you usually
> go?
> What is the attendance usually like?
>
>
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