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From: Joseph Begumisa <begj@eahd.or.ug>
To: Ali Soylu <loner@netone.com.tr>
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Subject: Re: Server Crashes
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You need to run some serious checks on that machine.  I can't confirm that
it is DOS attack but it could be one.  Any suspicious entries in your logs or
what do your logs say apart from this?

-- 
Joseph.

On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Ali Soylu wrote:

> Hi,
> My server suddenly gives the following errors, usually 4-5 times a day.
> I follow the swap and memory usage, and there's plenty of both free mem
> and swap space when the error is given:
>
> Jul 11 02:22:51 punky /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space Jul 11
> 02:22:51 punky /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space Jul 11 02:22:51
> punky /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed Jul 11 02:22:51 punky
> /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed Jul 11 02:22:52 punky /kernel:
> pid 6074 (perl), uid 65534, was killed: out of swap space Jul 11
> 02:22:52 punky /kernel: pid 6074 (perl), uid 65534, was killed: out of
> swap space Jul 11 02:22:53 punky last message repeated 2 times Jul 11
> 02:22:53 punky /kernel: pid 5914 (perl), uid 65534, was killed: out of
> swap space Jul 11 02:22:53 punky last message repeated 2 times Jul 11
> 02:22:53 punky /kernel: pid 5914 (perl), uid 65534, was killed: out of
> swap space Jul 11 02:22:53 punky last message repeated 8 times Jul 11
> 02:23:01 punky /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed Jul 11 02:22:53
> punky last message repeated 8 times Jul 11 02:23:01 punky /kernel:
> swap_pager_getswapspace: failed Jul 11 02:23:04 punky last message
> repeated 108 times Jul 11 02:23:04 punky last message repeated 108 times
>
>
> Also the server locks and needs to be rebooted at least 2-3 times a day.
> (it's at a remote location)
>
> The server had been running well for nearly a year, these errors started
> last week.
>
> (please cc the reply to me)
>
> ALi
>
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