Hi Pete, On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 12:33 +0100, Pete Boyd wrote: > I have a mail and Samba PDC server that, after a couple of days, runs out > of RAM then swap then freaks out with oom killer kicking in, at which > point it becomes very unresponsive and needs rebooting. > > Does anyone have any ideas of what could be causing this please?
Watch the ten biggest processes, are they growing permanently? ps aux | sort -nr -k5 | grep -v USER | head -10 Whats about the process count? How many processes running? Is this number constantly growing? ps aux | wc -l Ciao Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org