Jammed like an orange tree.

So I think I have it licked – if you’ve tried to go to this site and just get “Error establishing a database connection”, it’s likely due to memory exhaustion:

The likely culprit: /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/mpm_prefork.conf

<IfModule mpm_prefork_module>
StartServers 5
MinSpareServers 5
MaxSpareServers 10
MaxRequestWorkers 150
MaxConnectionsPerChild 0
</IfModule>

And the log that let me catch it in the act:

[23743.574941] Out of memory: Kill process 857 (mysqld) score 45 or sacrifice child

[23743.575134] Killed process 857 (mysqld) total-vm:910236kB, anon-rss:21764kB, file-rss:0kB

[23747.982892] init: mysql main process (857) killed by KILL signal

[23747.982923] init: mysql main process ended, respawning

[23748.272600] init: mysql main process (6431) terminated with status 1

[23748.272617] init: mysql main process ended, respawning

[23749.210945] init: mysql post-start process (6432) terminated with status 1

[23749.364629] init: mysql main process (6467) terminated with status 1

[23749.364683] init: mysql respawning too fast, stopped

While I try to figure out how to get fastcgi and php-fpm going (I’m not in that “go rewrite config files” state of mind right now) I just turned down MaxRequestWorkers to prevent ram-sucking jams.

Speaking of things jamming…. I’m trading in my Harris Z16 for an orange tree soon. Yes, THIS GUY. I have yet to ever send this SSTV slide to anyone though. You know, sometimes life throws you orange playground balls. I really love radio and electronics but this thing will never, ever, send me alarms at 4 AM, and that makes me a lot happier.

Beeeeee-bloopblooopbleebloop... No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.....
Beeeeee-bloopblooopbleebloop… No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No…..
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Note the lack of glow on the FAULT led, under the left LCD. This thing was my stand-in orange tree.

 

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