{"id":515,"date":"2006-08-22T16:32:10","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T16:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maydanoz.arved.priv.at\/blog\/?p=515"},"modified":"2006-08-22T16:32:10","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T16:32:10","slug":"i_suck_as_a_sys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/2006\/08\/22\/i_suck_as_a_sys\/","title":{"rendered":"I suck as a system administrator."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been some problems with my server recently. It has been running out of swap three or four times resulting in random processes being killed. Two times i had to reboot it, because i was not able to log in anymore, first time the named process was killed, second time the ssh process was killed.<br \/>\nNow i have added some kind of poor mans watchdog script to cron.<\/p>\n<pre>\n\/etc\/rc.d\/sshd status > \/dev\/null\nif [ $? -ne 0 ]; then\n\/etc\/rc.d\/sshd restart\nfi<\/pre>\n<p>The cause of the problem is still unknown, the log only says that perl processes are stealing my memory, so suspects are SpamAssassin or a CGI.<br \/>\nI restored a backup from before the problem started (wow, my backups seem to actually work..) and started to experiment with RLimitMem.<br \/>\nSince i am going on holiday in September (two weeks without internet access), i hope the problems are solved now.<br \/>\nP.S. turbo23 pointed me to the work by Chris Jones for SoC06, which would have solved a lot of the problems. So i am looking forward to getting jail resource limits into the mainline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been some problems with my server recently. It has been running out of swap three or four times resulting in random processes being killed. Two times i had to reboot it, because i was not able to log in anymore, first time the named process was killed, second time the ssh process was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/2006\/08\/22\/i_suck_as_a_sys\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I suck as a system administrator.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-this-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}