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caker
Joined: 15 Apr 2003
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Location: Galloway, NJ
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:07 pm Post subject: Host31 reboot |
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Host31's OOM killer decided to start eating Linodes this morning.
Should be a quick reboot -- updates in a few.
-Chris |
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Xan
Joined: 08 Feb 2004
Posts: 325
Location: Austin
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:12 pm Post subject: |
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This is getting to be like Ten Little Indians. Any of us could be next!!!
Seriously, what's taking the kernel devs so long with 2.6.11... |
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caker
Joined: 15 Apr 2003
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Location: Galloway, NJ
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, 2.6.10's OOM killer was seriously hosed. Apparently, these bugs existing in previous 2.6 kernels as well, but some (minor?) changes that are in 2.6.10 caused it to be much more sensitive.
I apologize for these mid-afternoon reboots but they are necessary. Linode.com works hard to provide a stable environment for your Linodes and this upgrade should eliminate the OOM-killer problems.
We did test the existing 2.6.10 host kernel for a few weeks in production without any problems before upgrading these machines, but the OOM killer bug has a mind of its own.
Linodes are restarting now.
-Chris |
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OverlordQ
Joined: 04 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:51 pm Post subject: |
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| NP, all 'vital' services start with the box anyway so no biggie :) Thanks for the quick updates :) |
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