[Linux-disciples] System Logs

[Jason Smith]

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On Mar 2, 2006, at 8:53 AM, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
>
> ...
> Feb 28 10:55:06 randycohen kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order  
> allocation failed
> (gfp=0x1d2/0) Feb 28 10:55:06 randycohen kernel: VM: killing  
> process apache
>
> Feb 28 10:55:06 randycohen kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order  
> allocation failed
> (gfp=0x1f0/0) Feb 28 10:55:06 randycohen kernel: __alloc_pages: 0- 
> order
> allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) Feb 28 10:55:06 randycohen last  
> message
> repeated 3 times
> ...
>
> Well, that certainly isn't good stuff. Is that around the time your  
> system
> crashed (2/28 at 10:55am?)

Yep. I was working in Plone that is running on that server.


>
> It looks like perhaps you had an errant process that got out of  
> control and
> took over all system resources. This could also conceivably be a  
> symptom of
> deeper hardware problems.
>

Why does that happen? I guess my question is this... what are the  
differentials used to diagnosis these kinds of problems. I also found  
the log entry above and could identify that is probably where it went  
awry but lack the framework to diagnosis the problem....



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