Re: PostgreSQL database and other daemons crashing

/var/log/messages doesn't really show anything (see below). Just my
repeated manual restarts because of the daemon crashing. Yes, all three
crash each time, I can't figure out why rsyslog and postfix die because of a
database issue. I'm not familiar with the oom killer. I'll google around.
Do you have any advice on how to test that as a cause?

May 20 09:59:28 kernel: rklogd 2.0.6, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
May 20 10:22:51 rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="2.0.6"
x-pid="18289" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"][x-configInfo
udpReception="No" udpPort="514" tcpReception="No" tcpPort="0"] restart
May 20 10:22:51 kernel: rklogd 2.0.6, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
May 20 11:26:26 rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="2.0.6"
x-pid="17507" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"][x-configInfo
udpReception="No" udpPort="514" tcpReception="No" tcpPort="0"] restart

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 15:10 -0500, Spencer Anderson wrote:
> > I have a Ruby on Rails web site that is running on a CentOS 5 server
> > using Apache 2 with Passenger and PostgreSQL 8.4. Over the past two
> > weeks I am seeing my PostgreSQL daemon, postfix, and rsyslog daemons
> > all die at the same time, this happens at least 5 times per day at
> > random times. Apache however, does not die.
>
> All three? What does /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog say?
>
>
> I wonder if the oom killer is acting up.
>
>
> Joshua D. Drake
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