Re: Out of memory problems - some interesting log file entries

[ugob at camo-route.com (Ugo Bellavance)]

Brian Parish wrote:
> This is a newly installed server running CentOS 4 with all current updates.  
> It's been cruising nicely since installation a week ago until this morning.  
> Then everyting started timing out and the attached messages appeared in the 
> log (this is a short and sanitized extract).  Load went sky high.
> 
> Had to reboot to restore service and all looks happy again now, but if anyone 
> can provide some input on these messages...
> 
> TIA
> Brian

Maybe you should look at your sar reports.  In /var/log/sa