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Monday, March 26th, 2007Website hosting
Sunday, March 11th, 2007After 303 days of uptime, I decided to reboot my onthoo.com server. The load was getting a bit too high, especially since my brothers website pets.be was mentioned in some national newspapers (Het Laatste Nieuws and La Meuse).
This was the last uptime message after a long time without any reboots:
16:22:13 up 303 days, 21:43, 1 user, load average: 0.31, 12.81, 57.29
Memory was constantly at 800 MB used, without any significant processes running. After the reboot, it was only 250 MB…
Nevertheless a good uptime for this server, which has to handle quite a load these days.
I still have to figure out what exactly went wrong, since the server didn’t respond to http, ssh nor smtp. After some hours, everything came up like nothing had happened. In the Apache logs I found a lot of OutOfMemory errors, maybe the server was just constantly swapping without any time left for handling connections.
I tweaked some Apache parameters, but apparently this wasn’t enough. If anyone knows of a way how to prevent Apache from taking too much memory, please let me know!