On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 09:19 +0200, Rob Verduijn wrote: > Because bigsister wants to report all these tests she starts working so > hard that she consumes all the resources on the server grinding it down > to a halt. > Only a cold boot of the system can save her. Hmh, just to make sure I understand correctly: Is this the Big Sister server crashing or is it so many alarms going off (each within its own process ...), that the system crashes when the process table gets full and/or is out of memory? As far as I my experience goes, bbd/bsmon won't take a system down, since they are just single-threaded processes. If they get hit by a huge number of messages they will just process them as fast as they can, dropping messages if they are too slow. I don't actually see how they would hurt your system (unless you've got one of those systems that stop working under heavy load - seen that with rather old Linux kernels and/or megaraid RAID controller, for instance). > I need a sollution for this problem. Provided that the problem *is* related to a huge number of alarms going off, what about suppressing them using the "check" argument? If not, I cannot judge from here what actually happens. Is there any chance you get more information? Out of memory (well, shouldn't bring the machine down)? Out of processes (shouldn't stop open shell sessions from accepting input)? I/O problems (probably a hardware problem, then)? No hints in syslog? BTW: What system are we talking about? Best regards, Tom ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Aeby, Kirchweg 52, 1735 Giffers, Switzerland, Tel: (+41)264180040 Internet: suppressed PGP public key available ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Bigsister-general mailing list suppressed https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bigsister-general
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