Cannot allocate memory.

I've been getting the following errors, which have become so critical
that they have stopped the server, a debian 3.1 system.

Checked the group but cannot find any solution.

The company that i rent the server from state i'm running too many
services, and told me to stop some to allow the system to run.

Bit pointless when i need everything, this is what i know is running,

Sendmail, apache, mysql, Cyrus IMAP, SASLv2.

Here are the errors, anyone any ideas ?

------------------------------------------------------------ ----------
Nov 26 22:13:54 XXXXXXXX sm-mta[23756]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): daemon:
cannot
fork: Cannot allocate memory
Nov 26 22:15:23 XXXXXXXX sm-mta[23756]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): daemon:
cannot
fork: Cannot allocate memory
Nov 26 22:17:48 XXXXXXXX sm-mta[23756]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): daemon:
cannot
fork: Cannot allocate memory
Nov 26 22:20:32 XXXXXXXX sm-mta[23756]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): daemon:
cannot
fork: Cannot allocate memory
Nov 26 22:21:05 XXXXXXXX sm-mta[23756]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): daemon:
cannot
fork: Cannot allocate memory
Nov 26 22:25:23 XXXXXXXX sm-mta[23756]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): daemon:
cannot
fork: Cannot allocate memory
Nov 26 22:26:49 XXXXXXXX sm-mta[23756]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): daemon:
cannot
fork: Cannot allocate memory
Nov 26 22:28:50 XXXXXXXX cyrus/master[23666]: can't fork process to run
event
checkpoint
Nov 26 22:32:54 XXXXXXXX sm-mta[23756]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): daemon:
cannot
fork: Cannot allocate memory
Nov 26 22:34:00 XXXXXXXX sm-mta[23756]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): daemon:
cannot
fork: Cannot allocate memory
------------------------------------------------------------ -------------

Thanks for any help.

Re: Cannot allocate memory.

Peter writes:

> I've been getting the following errors, which have become so
> critical that they have stopped the server, a debian 3.1 system.
>
> Checked the group but cannot find any solution.
>
> The company that i rent the server from state i'm running too many
> services, and told me to stop some to allow the system to run.
>
> Bit pointless when i need everything, this is what i know is running,
>
> Sendmail, apache, mysql, Cyrus IMAP, SASLv2.
>
> Here are the errors, anyone any ideas ?
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------
> Nov 26 22:13:54 XXXXXXXX sm-mta[23756]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): daemon:
> cannot fork: Cannot allocate memory
> Nov 26 22:15:23 XXXXXXXX sm-mta[23756]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): daemon:
> cannot fork: Cannot allocate memory
> Nov 26 22:17:48 XXXXXXXX sm-mta[23756]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): daemon:
> cannot fork: Cannot allocate memory

Well, it looks like you are running out of memory and need
to a) add more RAM to the server b) find out if a 'bad' process is taking
too much memory. The output from 'top' should hopefully tell you who
the memory hogs are. Adding swap might be a tmp fix.

Best regards!
--
John
____________________________________________________________ _______
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Re: Cannot allocate memory.

I can't physically access the server, it's actually a VE with a hosting
company. They've told me it's spamassassin hogging the resources, i
plan to remove it, but dont know why it should be taking so much.

BTW, it's got 7 gig of ram anyway.


John Murtari wrote:
> Peter writes:
>
>> I've been getting the following errors, which have become so
>> critical that they have stopped the server, a debian 3.1 system.
>>
>> Checked the group but cannot find any solution.
>>
>> The company that i rent the server from state i'm running too many
>> services, and told me to stop some to allow the system to run.
>>
>> Bit pointless when i need everything, this is what i know is running,
>>
>> Sendmail, apache, mysql, Cyrus IMAP, SASLv2.
>>
>> Here are the errors, anyone any ideas ?
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------
>> Nov 26 22:13:54 XXXXXXXX sm-mta[23756]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): daemon:
>> cannot fork: Cannot allocate memory
>> Nov 26 22:15:23 XXXXXXXX sm-mta[23756]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): daemon:
>> cannot fork: Cannot allocate memory
>> Nov 26 22:17:48 XXXXXXXX sm-mta[23756]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): daemon:
>> cannot fork: Cannot allocate memory
>
> Well, it looks like you are running out of memory and need
> to a) add more RAM to the server b) find out if a 'bad' process is taking
> too much memory. The output from 'top' should hopefully tell you who
> the memory hogs are. Adding swap might be a tmp fix.
>
> Best regards!