Christian Zimmermann writes
Out of memory!
It does appear that there are some a.cgi processes hanging, and there are two control daemons. aras@nebka:~$ ps -afu aras UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD aras 19140 18938 34 09:18 ? 00:21:44 /usr/bin/perl -w a.cgi aras 19311 18810 29 09:30 ? 00:14:40 /usr/bin/perl -w a.cgi aras 20939 20937 0 10:15 ? 00:00:00 sshd: aras@pts/1 aras 20940 20939 0 10:15 pts/1 00:00:00 -bash aras 21002 21001 0 10:16 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /home/aras/acis/bin/apu 7 >>/home/aras/apu-job.log 2>&1 aras 21003 21002 1 10:16 ? 00:00:03 /usr/bin/perl /home/aras/acis/bin/apu 7 aras 21161 27126 0 10:20 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl -I/home/aras/acis/lib /home/aras/acis/bin/control_daemon.pl -d -f /home/aras/a aras 21168 20355 1 10:20 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl -w a.cgi aras 21208 21012 7 10:20 ? 00:00:01 /usr/bin/perl -w a.cgi aras 21212 20940 0 10:21 pts/1 00:00:00 ps -afu aras aras 25123 25120 0 Apr01 ? 00:00:01 sshd: aras@pts/0 aras 25124 25123 0 Apr01 pts/0 00:00:00 -bash aras 27126 1 0 00:45 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl -I/home/aras/acis/lib /home/aras/acis/bin/control_daemon.pl -d -f /home/aras/a aras 29977 27126 10 04:09 ? 00:40:54 /usr/bin/perl -I/home/aras/acis/lib /home/aras/acis/bin/control_daemon.pl -d -f /home/aras/a I don't think we should have the two daemons, but aras@nebka:~$ rid stop Killing control_daemon with pid 27126 Wait for control_daemon to exit...... done seems to have killed both. aras@nebka:~$ ps -afu aras UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD aras 19140 18938 34 09:18 ? 00:22:12 /usr/bin/perl -w a.cgi aras 19311 18810 29 09:30 ? 00:15:08 /usr/bin/perl -w a.cgi aras 20939 20937 0 10:15 ? 00:00:00 sshd: aras@pts/1 aras 20940 20939 0 10:15 pts/1 00:00:00 -bash aras 21002 21001 0 10:16 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /home/aras/acis/bin/apu 7 >>/home/aras/apu-job.log 2>&1 aras 21003 21002 1 10:16 ? 00:00:05 /usr/bin/perl /home/aras/acis/bin/apu 7 aras 21208 21012 2 10:20 ? 00:00:02 /usr/bin/perl -w a.cgi aras 21244 20968 17 10:22 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl -w a.cgi aras 21245 21016 16 10:22 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl -w a.cgi aras 21246 20940 0 10:22 pts/1 00:00:00 ps -afu aras aras 25123 25120 0 Apr01 ? 00:00:01 sshd: aras@pts/0 aras 25124 25123 0 Apr01 pts/0 00:00:00 -bash I killed the two longest running a.cgi processes aras@nebka:~$ kill -9 19140 aras@nebka:~$ kill -9 19311 I hope this helps. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorclaim.org/profile/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel