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G'day all,
On 13/03/2023 14:32, James Dutton via Hampshire wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 at 08:03, rmluglist2--- via Hampshire
> <hampshire@??? <mailto:hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk>> wrote:
>
> Hi all____
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> I have an Ubuntu box which is on 24/7/365. It has ufw running
> allowing nothing from outside my lan.____
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> A couple of times recently, I’ve come in to find the machine locked
> up with a lot of disk access (it can be ping’d but I can’t ssh into
> it and it doesn’t respond to mouse or keyboard on the console – only
> power cycling brings it back). As I say, this has now happened
> twice in the last 3-4 nights.____
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> I have seen this behaviour sometimes.
> By default Linux can block all interactive conversations when using high
> disk access
> High disk access can be caused by a number of things:
> 1) some app actually needs the disk
> 2) Faults on the disk, causing many retries.
> 3) Swap file access
>
> After a reboot, you can look for faults on the disk with "smartctl -a
> /dev/sda" and see if there are any log messages there about failed
> sectors, or sector reallocation counts increasing etc.
>
> If an app needs the disk, it is probably something kicked off by cron.
> You can force these apps to use a lower priority for io with "ionice"
> Google ionice for suitable ways to run it.
> But, I think a good diagnosis is probably to disable cron altogether for
> say a week, and see if the problem disappears.
> Then at least you will then know that cron and the apps it runs are the
> problem.
>
I've seen this behaviour with ClamAV; in the end I had to remove it. The
database gets to a certain point where it won't fit in memory along with
the rest of the system; swap doesn't help, you'd need to add RAM to
accommodate it.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/114709/how-to-reduce-clamav-memory-usage/278110
> Another possible cause, is an app causing it to run low on memory that
> results in unpredictable behaviour when memory allocation fails, and it
> seems a lot of programs don't behave well when that happens. This might
> also cause excessive swap file access.
>
> These are all problems that are difficult to diagnose while they are
> happening, so the trick is to set up monitoring to watch for each of the
> cases.
> E.g. take metrics of free RAM and when the fault happens, you can look
> at the metrics graph, to see if that is the problem etc.
> take metrics of the disk access on a per app basis.
> Normally the lock up will not be immediate, it will get slow first and
> then eventually lock up. So at least some metrics are written before the
> lock up.
>
> Kind Regards
>
> James
>
HTH
Brad
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