Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 06:17:55 +1200 (NZST) From: Andrew McNaughton <andrew@scoop.co.nz> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Processes dying mysteriously Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1010802060557.10796B-100000@aurora.scoop.co.nz>
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I've got a production server that has problems with processes dying mysteriously. This server is at a remote location and has otherwise been running without problems for years, so it's still on FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE. So, these processes are dying without trace. A few times I've seen it happen when running something from the shell, and I've seen 'Killed' come up on my terminal. Otherwise I have no diagnostic info, and am looking for information on how I might trace what processes are issuing kill signals to what other processes and log that information. I'm aware of resource limits. I suspect this is not the problem as root processes are dying (root resources are not limited much), and the processes which die are often small mundane ones, though it seems to hit all sorts of things. Also this used not to occur, and the system is not much more heavily loaded, and I've seen processes die when the system is apparently doing very little. It would be nice to be able to get a log entry when resource limits lead to a process being killed. Resource issues can be quite difficult to diagnose with any certainty. Any help would be much appreciated. Please reply to my email directly as I'm not subscribed to the list. Andrew -- Andrew McNaughton Scoop Media Ltd andrew@scoop.co.nz "Every year the international financial system kills more people than the second world war. But at least Hitler was mad ... " -- Ken Livingstone To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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