"Out of memory and no killable processes" during installation
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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I'm following the installation procedure (<a href="http://community.aegirproject.org/installing/debian">http://community.aegirproject.org/installing/debian</a>) to install Aegir (same thing with 6.x-1.0-rc7 and 6.x-1.0) on Debian 6.0.1a i386 installed in a virtual machine (virtualbox-4.0_4.0.4-70112~Ubuntu~maverick_amd64.deb) on Ubuntu 10.10 desktop amd64.</p>
<p>I run out of memory. On the console I see "Out of memory and no killable processes". And I am no more able to access to the virtual machine and have to close it and re-open it.</p>
<p>I first gave 512 Mb to the virtual machine, then 1Gb, then 2Gb and still out of memory. </p>
<p>This is where it stops during installation (apt-get install aegir) through ssh:</p>
<pre>[...]<br>+ [ -d /var/aegir/.drush/provision ]<br>+ echo installing the Aegir frontend (Drupal with the hostmaster profile), please wait...<br>installing the Aegir frontend (Drupal with the hostmaster profile), please wait...<br>+ su aegir -c drush hostmaster-install --yes --debug --backend myserver | drush backend-parse<br>Bootstrap to phase 0. [0.03 sec, 1.63 MB] [bootstrap]<br>Drush bootstrap phase : _drush_bootstrap_drush() [0.03 sec, 1.77 MB] [bootstrap]</pre><p>Running a "top" during installation, it freeze at:</p>
<pre>top - 15:34:10 up 22 min, 3 users, load average: 2.31, 1.35, 0.75<br>Tasks: 58 total, 1 running, 57 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie<br>Cpu(s): 2.1%us, 15.9%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 77.2%wa, 1.0%hi, 3.8%si, 0.0%st<br>Mem: 1034480k total, 1022036k used, 12444k free, 56k buffers<br>Swap: 392184k total, 392184k used, 0k free, 772k cached<br><br> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND <br> 1403 aegir 20 0 1375m 985m 12 D 11.7 97.6 14:11.79 php<br> 1321 myuser 20 0 2332 344 168 R 3.3 0.0 0:01.90 top<br> 1478 root 20 0 1708 88 8 S 2.0 0.0 0:00.09 getty<br> 1477 root 20 0 1708 84 8 S 1.8 0.0 0:00.08 getty<br> 15 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 1.5 0.0 0:00.51 kblockd/0<br> 1315 myuser 20 0 8392 116 4 S 1.5 0.0 0:00.64 sshd<br>[...]</pre><p>And the last "ps ax" I did before the freeze:</p>
<pre>myuser@myserver:~$ ps ax<br> PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND<br> 1 ? Ss 0:00 init [2] <br> 2 ? S 0:00 [kthreadd]<br> 3 ? S 0:00 [migration/0]<br> 4 ? S 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]<br> 5 ? S 0:00 [watchdog/0]<br> 6 ? S 0:00 [events/0]<br> 7 ? S 0:00 [cpuset]<br> 8 ? S 0:00 [khelper]<br> 9 ? S 0:00 [netns]<br> 10 ? S 0:00 [async/mgr]<br> 11 ? S 0:00 [pm]<br> 12 ? S 0:00 [sync_supers]<br> 13 ? S 0:00 [bdi-default]<br> 14 ? S 0:00 [kintegrityd/0]<br> 15 ? S 0:00 [kblockd/0]<br> 16 ? S 0:00 [kacpid]<br> 17 ? S 0:00 [kacpi_notify]<br> 18 ? S 0:00 [kacpi_hotplug]<br> 19 ? S 0:00 [kseriod]<br> 21 ? S 0:00 [kondemand/0]<br> 22 ? S 0:00 [khungtaskd]<br> 23 ? D 0:00 [kswapd0]<br> 24 ? SN 0:00 [ksmd]<br> 25 ? S 0:00 [aio/0]<br> 26 ? S 0:00 [crypto/0]<br> 133 ? S 0:00 [ata/0]<br> 134 ? S 0:00 [ata_aux]<br> 136 ? S 0:00 [scsi_eh_0]<br> 137 ? S 0:00 [scsi_eh_1]<br> 175 ? S 0:00 [kjournald]<br> 222 ? S<s 0:00 udevd --daemon<br> 314 ? S< 0:00 udevd --daemon<br> 315 ? S< 0:00 udevd --daemon<br> 356 ? S 0:00 [kpsmoused]<br> 732 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -c4<br> 761 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/acpid<br> 774 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/sbin/VBoxService<br> 793 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start<br> 796 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start<br> 798 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start<br> 799 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start<br> 913 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron<br> 926 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe<br> 1044 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid --socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock --port=3306<br> 1045 ? S 0:00 logger -t mysqld -p daemon.error<br> 1057 ? S 0:00 [flush-8:0]<br> 1200 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/lib/postfix/master<br> 1224 tty1 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty1<br> 1225 tty2 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2<br> 1226 tty3 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3<br> 1227 tty4 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4<br> 1228 tty5 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5<br> 1229 tty6 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6<br> 1246 ? Ss 0:00 dhclient -v -pf /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid -lf /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.eth0.leases eth0<br> 1277 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd<br> 1296 ? S 0:00 pickup -l -t fifo -u -c<br> 1297 ? S 0:00 qmgr -l -t fifo -u<br> 1298 ? Ss 0:00 sshd: myuser [priv]<br> 1301 ? S 0:00 sshd: myuser@pts/0<br> 1302 pts/0 Ss 0:00 -bash<br> 1307 pts/0 S 0:00 su -<br> 1308 pts/0 S 0:00 -su<br> 1312 ? Ss 0:00 sshd: myuser [priv]<br> 1315 ? S 0:00 sshd: myuser@pts/1<br> 1316 pts/1 Ss 0:00 -bash<br> 1321 pts/1 S+ 0:01 top<br> 1322 ? Ss 0:00 sshd: myuser [priv]<br> 1324 ? S 0:00 sshd: myuser@pts/2<br> 1325 pts/2 Ss 0:00 -bash<br> 1359 pts/0 S+ 0:00 dpkg --configure -a<br> 1365 pts/0 S+ 0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/aegir-hostmaster.postinst configure <br> 1386 pts/0 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/aegir-hostmaster.postinst configure <br> 1401 pts/0 S+ 0:00 su aegir -c drush hostmaster-install --yes --debug --backend myserver | drush backend-parse<br> 1402 pts/0 S+ 0:00 bash -c drush hostmaster-install --yes --debug --backend myserver | drush backend-parse<br> 1403 pts/0 R+ 10:51 php /usr/bin/drush hostmaster-install --yes --debug --backend myserver<br> 1404 pts/0 S+ 0:00 php /usr/bin/drush backend-parse<br> 1423 pts/2 R+ 0:00 ps ax<br>myuser@myserver:~$</pre>
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