Webmin service suddenly stops, as well as proftpd

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#1 Wed, 07/02/2014 - 12:12
igorocampos

Webmin service suddenly stops, as well as proftpd

Hi, I have this VPS with virtualmin installed and all set, working without any headaches, except this: from time to time (couple days) the webmin service is found stopped... If I want to log in via browser I need to restart it from the VPS. I Also found the proftpd service stopped sometimes (less often).

Anyone has an idead of what could be happening???

Wed, 07/02/2014 - 13:33
andreychek

Howdy,

Normally, that's a sign of resource problems.

What kind of VPS are you using? Is it by chance OpenVZ? If so, can you post your /proc/user_beancounters file?

If it's another VPS type, what is the output of "free -m"?

-Eric

Wed, 07/02/2014 - 13:52
igorocampos

Hi, thank you for your help. It is a droplet at Digital Ocean
output is

total
used
free
shared
buffers
cached

Mem:
490
330
159
17
17
122

-/+ buffers/cache:

196
293

Swap:
0
0
0

Wed, 07/02/2014 - 14:32
andreychek

Howdy,

Ah, yeah, I suspect you're running out of RAM.

It looks like you have about 500MB of RAM, and no swap.

Are you by chance using a 64 bit kernel as well?

If so, that would double the RAM requirements of the processes running on your server.

You could always try disabling the services you don't need... and using a 32 bit distro with any system containing less than 2 or 3GB of RAM would be our recommendation.

However, you may find that you need to increase the amount of RAM available in your server.

-Eric

Wed, 07/02/2014 - 14:55
igorocampos

OK, thank you for your help!!

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