Re: [webmin-l] Hundreds of cron /usr/bin/monitor.sh notifications followed by server crash

[John H. <web...@ew...>]

pr...@pr... wrote:
> From: Prodos
>
> Good afternoon.
>
> For two days in a row my server has crashed.
>
> Before it crashes I receive hundreds of notifications
> from my server.
>
> The subject line of each message is:
>
> Cron <root@prodos> /usr/bin/monitor.sh
>
> And the content of each message says this:
>
> Load Avegare check FAILED at 11
>
> [I presume this should be spelt "Load Average"?]
>
> ... but with different numbers.
>
> My most recent LogWatch says (among other things) this:
>
> Connections Rejected due to load average::
>    Load Avg 12: 111 Times(s)
>    Load Avg 13: 51 Times(s)
>    Load Avg 131: 1 Times(s)
>    Load Avg 14: 59 Times(s)
>    Load Avg 15: 41 Times(s)
>    Load Avg 16: 23 Times(s)
>    Load Avg 17: 24 Times(s)
>    Load Avg 18: 19 Times(s)
>
>    [And the list goes on and on]
>
>
> Does anyone have any idea what's happening
> and what could be done to fix this?
>   
Is this under Sendmail in logwatch? If so, you have a very bad email 
problem going on... or something using up all the resources and Sendmail 
is gracefully allowing the other stuff to run....

What does top or sar show for load averages over time?

JH
> Thank you for any assistance.
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>
> PRODOS
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