Topic: Need to restart every 10 days

[Sam Chan]

Dear all,

I am experiencing a problem that I need to reboot my SME 5.6 server for every 10 days to use the Webmail. e.g. I reboot the server now and the Webmail is working fine. Then after 10 days, the user cannot use Webmail and I cannot even access server manager via IE. Then I reboot my server again.

Anyone can give me a light?

Sam

[jeroen]

Did you check the logfiles?

[chare]

I have the same problem although I reboot every 3 days.  It appears to be a memory issue on my machine 512 ram Pentium 3 700, 15 users. Using phpsysinfo 2.1 it quickly uses up it's physical memory and then hits the swap which slows it way down.  I just reboot and I'm good for another 3 days

[Bill Coghill]

I have a similar problem on a Dell box.  I thought it was related to Arkeria Tape Archive software - but it might not be.

If you look in the logs you'll see a whole load of processing being killed.  I can hear the server churn the disk when its swap gets full and the machine slows to an absolute stop.

Running 5.6 patched on a P3 Dual 350 Dell.

[Michael Smith]

Running 5.6 update 6 here ... uptime 42 days and that after a reboot to get to update 6.  Mr. Chan, please provide some more details as to your hardware/software configuration, whether this is a new or upgraded installation, which contribs you have installed, etc.  As it stands you have not given nearly enough information.

As to seeing RAM used in phpSysInfo, as has been discussed many times in these forums, SME WILL use all available RAM, freeing what it's using for cache as necessary for system processes.  Use SysMon to get more detailed info as to how RAM is being allocated.