[aclug-L] Help my Servers falling and won't stay up

[Clint Brubakken <cabrubak@xxxxxxx>]

We are running a redhat 7.2 server, rackspace installed (so I don't know
the whole configuration), and its locking up when we do to much with it.

The latest incidences happened when tgzing the /home directory to make a
back up.

The first time, I was creating the tar in my home directory which was
being tarred, and so i created a loop.

The second time I was creating it in the /tmp and it locked up in the
middle. 

I was doing a top at the time, and never saw the load get above 1.17, 
and the memory taken for gzip was at 64%, which is a lot but not enough
to lock up the server I'd think.

Both times it locked up so bad, they we couldn't ssh, or run any
services off it and it had to be rebooted by hand. 

I'm going to be looking into pam and limits, but it didn't seem like it
was a problem like that. 

Any ideas or suggestions?

Clint Brubakken
President in Exile


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