[server-admins] MonIt

DM Smith dmsmith at crosswire.org
Wed Sep 10 16:47:41 EDT 2025


And it died again after a few minutes. I restarted it. Not hopeful.

— DM

> On Sep 10, 2025, at 4:17 PM, DM Smith <dmsmith at crosswire.org> wrote:
> 
> I don’t know how to triage or fix the underlying problem. I’ve restarted it.
> 
> Looking at /var/log/messages, it is a machine OOM. Same as what Troy saw before. I’m guessing that the “OOM Reaper” is picking the biggest memory hogs and killing them. Those are all java processes.
> 
> There are many, many (~200) sword observer processes each taking a paltry 90,000 KB. Perhaps these are the culprits? Is there a bound on the pool of sword observers?
> 
> I also noted that:
> When the large java process is killed (which belongs to Jira) that many mariadb connections by jira are terminated.
> Jira needs to be updated from its current outdated version. Perhaps the newer version has a better memory footprint?
> 
> — DM
> 
>> On Sep 10, 2025, at 8:11 AM, Karl Kleinpaste <karl at kleinpaste.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On 9/9/25 3:57 PM, DM Smith wrote:
>>> I restarted it.
>> 
>> And it's dead again.
>> 
>> Something is evidently more seriously wrong than a mere need to restart.
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