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Date:      Tue, 5 Dec 2000 14:28:20 +0100 (CET)
From:      Bart <bart@no-x.nl>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ping OK, daemons dead ? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.03.10012051423260.14354-100000@donald-duck.ele.tue.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200011220217.SAA07701@irv1-mail2.intelenet.net>

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On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, David Harnick-Shapiro wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:04, Bart writes:
> >>>> Trying 212.104.204.x...
> >>>> Connected to mymachine.nl.
> >>>> Escape character is '^]'.
> >>>> 
> >>>> So the daemon ain't dead...
> >> 
> >> Do you eventually get a login prompt (after about 40 seconds)
> >> If so it may be trying (and failing) to do a DNS lookup on the inncoming
> >
> > I can wait 5+ mins and still no login:
> > (and it seams that it doesn't even close the connection
> > after xx minutes)
> 
> Rather than daemon processes dying, this sounds to me more like
> processes getting starved for resources (cpu cycles, memory,
> mbufs, something along those lines). 
> Can you do some low-tech monitoring and figure out what's getting
> used up?  Try connecting to the system while it's healthy, and
> just keep top or netstat or swapinfo or ... running, so you see
> what state the machine was in when you last had useful access to it.

Exatly two weeks later the same problem occured: machine is pingable
but I can't login any more, webserver does a connect but nothing
comes back, etc:

Looks like Perl is killing me. Any suggestion to restrict the
Perl stuff ?

stop:

last pid: 35260; load averages: 0.38, 0.26, 0.16 up 14+02:01:51  13:43:54
128 processes: 54 running, 72 sleeping, 2 zombie
CPU states: 3.8% user, 0.0% nice, 88.0% system, 1.1% interrupt, 7.1% idle
Mem: 11M Active, 3676K Inact, 12M Wired, 572K Cache, 6352K Buf, 412K Free
Swap: 68M Total, 68M Used, 100% Inuse, 380K In, 1892K Out

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
35206 nobody     2 -20  8140K  1276K RUN      0:01  8.38%  1.86% httpd
26346 nobody    -6   0  7864K   748K piperd   0:15  2.73%  1.07% httpd
34442 root      28   0  2040K   508K RUN      0:47  2.87%  0.63% top
26348 nobody    -6   0  7856K  1080K piperd   0:11  0.10%  0.10% httpd
35219 nobody     2   0  1856K  1204K RUN      0:00  0.15%  0.05% perl
35215 nobody     2   0  1856K  1196K RUN      0:00  0.13%  0.05% perl
35223 nobody    28   0  3908K  1176K RUN      0:00  0.17%  0.05% httpd
  226 mysql     28   0 13356K   476K RUN      5:09  0.00%  0.00% mysqld
 9780 robert     2   0  3368K   560K select   2:27  0.00%  0.00% eggdrop
  536     72     2   0  6856K     0K RUN      0:52  0.00%  0.00% ircd
  140 root       2   0  1432K     0K select   0:21  0.00%  0.00% sendmail
26349 nobody    -6   0  7760K   544K piperd   0:21  0.00%  0.00% httpd
26347 nobody    -6   0  7836K   544K piperd   0:20  0.00%  0.00% httpd
  137 root      10   0   956K     0K nanslp   0:20  0.00%  0.00% <cron>
26398 nobody    -6   0  7860K   552K piperd   0:20  0.00%  0.00% httpd
26401 nobody    -6   0  7852K   552K piperd   0:19  0.00%  0.00% httpd
  114 root      28   0   904K   284K RUN      0:19  0.00%  0.00% syslogd
26400 nobody    -6   0  7860K   556K piperd   0:18  0.00%  0.00% httpd
  135 root       2   0  1028K     0K select   0:18  0.00%  0.00% <inetd>
25129 root       2   0  2120K    72K select   0:18  0.00%  0.00% telnetd
26399 nobody    -6   0  7864K   552K piperd   0:15  0.00%  0.00% httpd
  287 root       2   0  3152K     0K select   0:13  0.00%  0.00% <snmpd>
26350 nobody    -6   0  7804K   560K piperd   0:12  0.00%  0.00% httpd
26367 nobody    -6   0  7856K   552K piperd   0:11  0.00%  0.00% httpd
26345 root      28   0  3840K   632K RUN      0:06  0.00%  0.00% httpd
34927 nobody    -6   0  7964K   720K piperd   0:03  0.00%  0.00% httpd
  990 bart       2   0  1664K     0K select   0:02  0.00%  0.00% <screen>
34280 root       2   0  2124K     0K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% <telnetd>
 7603 root       2   0  2116K     0K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% <telnetd>
66274 root       2   0  2120K     0K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% <telnetd>
15131 root      18   0  1340K     0K pause    0:00  0.00%  0.00% <csh>
17866 root       2   0  2120K     0K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% <telnetd>
67590 nobody     2   0   904K     0K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% <ident2>
66275 bart      10   0   620K     0K wait     0:00  0.00%  0.00% <sh>
17944 root       2   0  1276K     0K accept   0:00  0.00%  0.00% <ftpd>
47869 brouwer    3   0  1032K     0K ttyin    0:00  0.00%  0.00% <bash>
75273 root       3   0  1268K     0K ttyin    0:00  0.00%  0.00% <csh>
67612 ero        3   0  1020K     0K ttyin    0:00  0.00%  0.00% <bash>
35192 nobody    28   0  1856K  1000K RUN      0:00  0.00%  0.00% perl
35200 nobody     2   0  1856K  1052K RUN      0:00  0.00%  0.00% perl
35199 nobody     2   0  1856K  1052K RUN      0:00  0.00%  0.00% perl
33485 root       2   0  1276K     0K accept   0:00  0.00%  0.00% <ftpd>
35195 nobody     2   0  1856K  1052K RUN      0:00  0.00%  0.00% perl
35197 nobody     2   0  1856K  1052K RUN      0:00  0.00%  0.00% perl
35193 nobody    28   0  1856K  1076K RUN      0:00  0.00%  0.00% perl
35204 nobody     2   0  1856K  1052K RUN      0:00  0.00%  0.00% perl
35203 nobody     2   0  1856K  1052K RUN      0:00  0.00%  0.00% perl
35202 nobody     2   0  1856K  1060K RUN      0:00  0.00%  0.00% perl




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