Hi everybody,
My server isn't heavily loaded usually but yesterday something wrong has happend with my raq. It was overloaded.
I have telneted to it and typed "top".
It shows httpd process that is using 90% of CPU and 0% memory A lso there is a process called "parseReports" that takes 66% of the memory.

What could it be?
Was I hacked?

You weren't hacked.

parsereports is only the reports being created by the raq, maybe that process crashed. It may take some time for runnung, but more than one hour is strange. You can try to kill the process, also try to restart the httpd server, if that doesn't work kill the httpd process that's taking up the processor time. It's not normall if has been there.

Hope that this may help.

Thanks for your reply Lmax.
The problem is that when I tried to restart apache or kill process I have received message saying that there is no virtual memory.
I had to leave trouble ticket for reboot of my server.
Also today I had received a message from sys:

The PostgreSQL server is down and cannot be restarted.

That is something that makes me worry.

Check out the follow threads to fix your problem:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27305
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27352

It's happend again!!!!
I had a "top" window open and there were "parseReports" process that was taking 90% of CPU and 90% of the memory.
I have killed it but than there were a "gzip" process that used 80% CPU. I had to kill it as well.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on with my RAQ?

Thank You very much PAL.
I've killed those files.
Is there any way to control the size of the log files? Cause they can grow again.

Originally posted by vays
It's happend again!!!!
I had a "top" window open and there were "parseReports" process that was taking 90% of CPU and 90% of the memory.
I have killed it but than there were a "gzip" process that used 80% CPU. I had to kill it as well.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on with my RAQ?

Those are normal RaQ processes going on in there that relate to your log files. It is splitting the logs, making the GUI usage reports, gzipping the logs that it rotates and that's about it...

Why this is hanging your macine is a mystery to me.

Two days ago, while I was in the process of tarring and gzipping a backup file for my server I looked at the clock and it was just after 4:00 am... (when the above mentioned processes run via cron) Since my backup procedure was running at about 50% use already... I sat and watched the process begin and hoped the two running together would not take me down...

During this peirod, which lasted about 5 minutes, I saw 100% cpu use at times, yet was still able to access websites on the server without any noticable slowdown and the machine did not hang.. it simply ground on through the process..

Is this actually hanging the machine or are you worrying that it will and going in and killing processes during the run and maybe causing the lockup in the process?

Shortness

Those are normal RaQ processes going on in there that relate to your log files. It is splitting the logs, making the GUI usage reports, gzipping the logs that it rotates and that's about it...

The problem is that the RaQ3 split and rotate no longer the log files after the analog Update 4.0.2 (at least not on my RaQ).

Originally posted by shortfork

Is this actually hanging the machine or are you worrying that it will and going in and killing processes during the run and maybe causing the lockup in the process?


Yes it was hanging my machine. I had to leave trouble ticket for reboot to take it back on-line.
Now I've remove these log files:"web.cache web.cache.new" and my RAQ works without any probs now.

Originally posted by vays
Thanks for your reply Lmax.
The problem is that when I tried to restart apache or kill process I have received message saying that there is no virtual memory.
I had to leave trouble ticket for reboot of my server.
Also today I had received a message from sys:

The PostgreSQL server is down and cannot be restarted.

That is something that makes me worry.


The PostgreSQL server is down and cannot be restarted.

I actually had this in my mail sitting there when I logged in as root and su, than checked mail there were 3 sittings there.


"/var/spool/mail/admin": 1 message 1 unread
>U 1 admin Wed XX 23 12:34 18/518 "the PostgreSQL server"
& 1
Message 1:
From root Wed XXX 23 12:34:00 20XX
Date: Wed, XX XX 20XX 12:34:00 -0800
From: admin
To: sys
Subject: the PostgreSQL server is not responding
X-IMAPbase: 1012447147 3
X-Status:
X-Keywords:
X-UID: 1

The PostgreSQL server is down and cannot be restarted.


I didn't even know I had PostgreSQL running and what's used for, I just got the rack and i will read more about it. After a reboot I hadn't any more errors but I'm concern, it's a fresh-off-the table Cobalt Raq 4.