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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
      last edited by

      Hmm, nothing logged to show why php stopped responding?

      I suspect bumping that sysctl won't help if php never responds.

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        spittlbm @stephenw10
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        @stephenw10 what's the best way to increase logging for PHP?

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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          There's no easy way to do that. You can check /tmp/php_errors.txt but I'd expect any php errors to be shown as an alert.

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            spittlbm @stephenw10
            last edited by spittlbm

            Logged in tonight to see SWAP was at 52%.

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            Ran top and see this:

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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              Ah, so some stuck script using all the RAM. Interesting.

              Try running top as top -HaSP that may show more.

              You might also try running ps -auxwwd that may show you hat script is running.

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                spittlbm @stephenw10
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                SWAP use is down to 5% a few (15) hours later without my intervention:

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                Sorted and filtered for Swap:
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                ps -auxwwd results:
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                Stopped ntopng service and the stats seem similar:
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                top sorted by size:
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                top sorted by Swap:
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                and lastly:
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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                  Nothing shown in the process tree under php-fpm in the ps output?

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                    spittlbm @stephenw10
                    last edited by spittlbm

                    Not nothing...

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                    Sorry for truncating that output in the previous message.

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                      Hmm, dissapointing, I was hoping it might show there.

                      I'm not really aware of anything that behaves like that but don't run Hyper-V. You might ask in the virtualisation sub forum.

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                        xpxp2002
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                        Just posting here to let you know that I've also had similar issues with a system has been running stable for 5+ years on Hyper-V. Since upgrading to 23.05 (and now 23.05.1) this has begun happening to me. The only difference is that it occurs after about 14 days of uptime, so not easy to reproduce or troubleshoot.

                        I just had it happen about 45 minutes ago, but log rotation has already purged the relevant system logs. I also send syslog to another server, but of course it didn't receive anything during the outage. I doubled the log size for rotation and extended the retained logs to 21. I'll post another update to this thread next time it happens, and see if I can capture the relevant logs before they get purged.

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                        • stephenw10S
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                          last edited by

                          Unless anyone is seeing this on another platform this thread would probably be better in the virtualization sub.

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                            spittlbm @xpxp2002
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                            We've been stable for 4-5 days without touching anything. If it happens again, I'll hop to the other sub. Don't love that something is using a bit of swap and always at 2gb+ ram usage, but it's working well.

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                              spittlbm @spittlbm
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                              So it's been about 6 weeks since anything happened and we had a crash today. Just replying to add 2 pieces of information in case anyone comes across this post in the future. Today we rebooted the VM host for the first time in 8 weeks after pushing some Microsoft updates. Second, I tried to reboot from shell and it hung on stopping ntopng. I think the reboot is anecdotal/coincidental.

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