On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 20:13:31 -0500 (EST) Gary Nielson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> implied:
> I am running a Valinux Redhat version 2.2.14-5.0.14b. My system was > running for 21 days continuously. Tonight, I was using > Netscape-Communicator when my machine started behaving > erratically. I had to kill Netscape from the command prompt, and there > were 3 Netscape processes running. Every time I tried to start Netscape > again, I wound up having to kill it from the prompt, and then I started > getting core dumps and could not even do a 'df' or an 'ls' without a core > dump and receiving an error message similar to the one recorded in > /var/log/messages: > > Nov 19 19:02:53 localhost httpd: httpd: error in loading shared > libraries: libcrypt.so.1: cannot map zero-fill pages: Cannot allocate memory > Nov 19 19:02:53 localhost httpd: startup failed > > When I could do a 'free' I found that all my swap space had been used up > on my 256 meg machine, as well as most other memory. I believe I got an > out of memory error from the shell prompt. > > I also got watchdog errors in my email that warned me that my httpd and > sendmail processes had "been restarted or something has gone wrong." > > I wound up rebooting the system and it is behaving fine now, not > exhibiting any problems. > > Did I just have a process that went wild, out of control, and brought the > house down? Is there something I should watch for to see if something is > not quite right such that this could happen again? > > I've had this machine for 2 years without such an incident and haven't > been making any changes recently. Any help appreciated. Did you happen to upgrade your glibc recently? I've had really strange problems when I've done that, some similar to some you've mentioned with processes not being able to load libraries. I've also had numerous problems with compiling kernels and such after upgrading. A reboot has (almost) always fixed it for me. -- To boldly go where I surely don't belong. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
