One of my rather overspeced linux servers had an attack of the old
'Unable to fork' problem on Sunday. Normally, this would be annoying
enough, but on a server with 400MB of free RAM, its just not on. This
machine is a 2.2.12 box, and needed a reboot to fix. Free command gives:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 517088 485400 31688 54996 339928 82776
-/+ buffers/cache: 62696 454392
Swap: 130748 1884 128864
I know swap is supposed to be > RAM, but turbolinux's mkswap only
supported 128MB swap partitions, even though a gig has been allocated.
Need to fix that i suppose.
Any ideas? Will a newer kernel or the 1GB swap fix it?
Dual Xeon 550MHz, adaptec 2940 SCSI, using NFS from a netapp for data,
all applications on local disk, in case any of that matters. Used for
apache and postfix mostly.
Tony.
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