Re: {bb} bb doesn't know what processes to kill when stopping?

[Philip Clark <pcclark@tiscali.co.uk>]

On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 23:12, Kimberly McKinnis wrote:
> I've got hundreds of netbooted machines that starting throwing this new
> error... very sporadically. The internally tests (cpu and memory) will
> turn purple and restarting bb does no good. The only fix has been to
> restart the machine. Thank god for networked APCs. 
> 
>  
> 
> These machines have been fine with bb for months, so this is a very new
> occurrence. They shouldn't be giving a 'no space' error, since well,
> they're diskless and netbooted. 
> 
>  
> 
> I was just wondering if anyone had any suggestions as to where to start
> looking. Otherwise, I'm going to try reinstalling bb on the boot root.
> Thanks :-)
> 
>  
> 
> -bash-2.05b$ ./runbb.sh stop
> 
> Stopping Big Brother...
> 
> kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] [pid | job]... or
> kill -l [sigspec]
> 
> grep: write error: No space left on device

With the clarity that comes with complete ignorance, I'd have to say
that looks like a swap problem. If you can tell us how swap is handled
on these machines, it might help in tracking the problem.

Other than that, it might help to know what OS these things are
running. For example, if this was Solaris, my first guess would be
that you may have been bitten by the "tail" bug.

Cheers, Phil.



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