On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Geoff Sweet <geoff.sw...@wemadeusa.com> wrote: > We are in the midst of migrating all our firewalls to 4.6. However I have a > now-recurring issue on one of my last 4.5 (amd64) firewalls that I'm having a > hard time understanding. It's happening right now so if there is something I > can do in this state to show what's going on, i'd like to do it. > > Current this firewall performs duty for inbound customer traffic for some game > clients (mmo style) and for firewall enforcement between various vlans on the > inside. The first time this happened I thought it was just a fluke. Current > state of the system: The system won't let me log in via ssh. I can make a tcp > connection via telnet so I know that at least something is listening on the > port, but nothing I try will get the system to prompt me for authentication > credentials. No love on the terminal either. Because our datacenter uses KVM > and the keyboard switches via USB, it won't detect the keyboard being plugged > in. However I can get video and it was left logged in with top running, and > it appears to be frozen. > > Just like the previous time the event was preceeded by increased complaints > from our customers that game lag was very high. I know this all seems very > vague, but I am totally frustrated here. We don't move a lot of traffic, > 40mbps at the most. It still continues to firewall traffic without too much > issue. Last time this happened, when I rebooted I couldn't find anything in > the logs to suggest an error of any type. Could I be running out of resources > somewhere? > > Thanks for your insight, > Geoff Sweet > >
I had this happen when I accidentally set up a compile box with 1mb of swap (instead of 1gb) on 32mb of RAM and a Pentium 200. I was trying to compile Java. Once I got it going it took 9 days to finish end-to-end. But, back on topic. What's the config of this firewall? CPU, RAM, HDD, swap? This smells of a OOM condition. -- Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict I've taken my software vows - for beta or for worse
