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[solyalex]

hi ,


from a few days ... my server got very slow and the load avarage go high then i got no response to any service http ftp smtp .. and so on ... only ping work this happen every day within a certin time ....


after 15 min the server got working and the and the load avarage come down to normal then i got a message from cpanel to my mail


cppop on server.xxxxx.xxx failed

when i check my log .... i see

kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 314 (httpd).

and some time out of memory due to mysql ...

then

filelimits: Increasing file system limits succeeded




my server conf. dual xeon 1gb ram

running

WHM 9.9.8 cPanel 9.9.8-C159
RedHat 9 i686 - WHM X v3.1.0


any suggestion ...

[Jakiao]

The error message is exactly it: you're running out of memory.

Could you print "free -m" here for us? Thanks.

[solyalex]

the error is kernel out of memory


total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1006 822 183 0 75 72
-/+ buffers/cache: 674 331
Swap: 2047 2047 0


and here is my vmstat every 2 sec.


0 0 0 2096472 187288 77976 75196 4 8 0 7 1 5 5 2 7
0 0 0 2096472 189400 77976 75200 0 0 0 0 201 206 4 1 95
0 0 0 2096472 190192 78008 75200 0 0 0 144 184 140 2 0 98
0 0 0 2096472 188960 78008 75208 0 0 0 0 173 130 3 0 96
0 0 0 2096472 186824 78008 75212 0 0 0 0 255 238 2 1 97
0 0 0 2096472 187352 78040 75220 0 0 0 156 239 186 1 0 99
1 0 0 2096472 188772 78040 75276 0 0 26 0 206 172 3 1 96

[Jakiao]

First off, your swap is FULL. Do the following:

Add more ram, another 512MB would be sufficient. Next, turn swapoff and back on.

swapoff -a;swapon -a

Good luck.