[bedevtalk] Zeta trouble

[Mark Hellegers]

>Hello Mark,

Hello Stephan.

thanks for the quick reply.

>Mark Hellegers wrote (2007-09-28, 20:01:25 [+0200]):
>> I hope someone is still subscribed that can help me with this annoying
>> problem.
>> I have a small website running on a Zeta 1.2 computer. Every now and
>then
>> the webserver stops responding to http requests. I can ssh into the
>> machine, but immediately get a message: "Killed (by death)".
>> After this message I am still logged in and can do ls commands and such
>> stuff.
>> I can also do ps to see what is running, but I can't see anything
>> strange. Attempts to run most programs from the ssh shell result in the
>> "Killed (by death)" message.
>> Shutting down the webserver software and the postgresql database also
>> don't help with the problem.
>> An attempt to reboot the machine causes it to hang and I can only get
>it
>> running again by hitting the reset switch on the machine.
>>
>> Is there a way to see if Zeta is running out of resources and to see
>> which application or part of the operating system is causing this ?
>
>I am still subscribed, but unfortunately don't have good ideas with
>regard to your problem. The networking itself doesn't seem to be the
>trouble. Either it's some kind of resource problem, or a crucial service
>has died. Have you tried enabling the syslog? What else have you tried to
>get an overview of the available/used resources?

I looked at the syslog, but there were only some entries about a
translation file not being found for some applications.
I mainly used ps to see which programs were running and how much memory I
still had.
I did have one program a few years ago that gobbled up file descriptors
and eventually failed, but I don't know if that is the case here and if
there is a general file descriptor limit.

>If nothing else, you can join Haiku development in the meantime! :-)

:) Thanks for the offer, but the webserver software still needs work and
there are some more (BeOS) projects that I want to work on.

>There is hope.

There sure is. Good luck.
When Haiku is stable enough to run on that system, I will surely give it a
try.

Mark

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