[TriLUG] TriLUG.org is up. Logins are working.

dac at trilug.org dac at trilug.org
Sun Mar 18 00:00:09 EDT 2007


You may already know this (and I used the website contact form as well),
but it appears that SSL IMAP is still down.  I'm actually using the Trilug
webmail page to send this.

Thank you for all the hard work and dealing with hickups like these!

Cheers,
David


> You can now login to login.trilug.org and the website is back up.  At
> this point, the root cause appears to be the failure to allocate
> memory that occured at 09:10:38...
>
>   Mar 17 09:10:38 talon kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
> failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
>
> Why we ran out of memory is unclear, but some symptoms were that:
>
> 1) the kerberos kdc went down (talon)
> 2) slapd went down (talon)
> 3) named went down (talon)
> 4) postfix went down (talon)
> 5) apache2 went down (talon)
> 6) sshd went down (dargo)
> 7) other lesser daemons started choking due to the high load after
> postfix, etc were restarted.
>
> Additionally, attempts to revive apache2 resulted in the following error:
>
>  [crit] (28)No space left on device: mod_rewrite: could not create
> rewrite_log_lock
>
> which was the system running out of space to store semaphores.  This
> problem was quickly remedied by removing semaphore arrays.
>
> Your TriLUG Sysadmin Team




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