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I had a machine start running out of memory last night, noticed that syslog-ng was using a crapload of ram for no good reason, then I look this morning first thing and see:

macs:~# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       4089560    3964688     124872          0       1344      26080
-/+ buffers/cache:    3937264     152296
Swap:      1951856    1951856          0

not going to be a fun day today, I can already tell.

p.s. – the code segment thing in here completely ignores spaces, and I had to put in a truckload of nbsp instead – what a pain in the ass. will look into that later

Doesn’t everybody? Had a box that was running fine for two years have hardware fumbling – it was the last of the drbd instances we had running in production a couple years ago so it was a little bit of a pain to get fixed properly. did a lot of prepwork last night til about midnight now we’re up replacing it for real now.

FUN!

and no, we don’t use drbd anywhere anymore. once we had a major drbd failure in production out it went pretty much everywhere else. we just kept putting off upgrading this particular system (if it ain’t broke?) since we were going to upgrade it to mysql 5.1… which we never did. til TONIGHT!