[afnog] Proxy server crushes

[Mohamadi ZONGO]

EmmanuelKwarteng a écrit :

>Hello mzongo,
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>Please find my reactions inline.
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>>Is this installation running nice before or it is a new installed server?
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>It is a new server.
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>>If u can not access it via ssh, the issue i will be looking for is a
>>probable memory exhaustion.
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>The memory is 2G.
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great! but if some process start to misuse your memory, they wont stop
until they reach the 2G limit ;-)

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>>Your are running X on your proxy server ! Isn't this very
>>ressource-intensive, causing a bad performance?
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>Yes I am running X on my proxy server
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my advice  : never run X  on server connected to Internet!

I sugest you upgrade to the latest 2.5-STABLE12, coz (but i am not sure,
laziness!) 2.5-STABLE9 could be vulnerable to other DoS like 2.5-STABLE8.

regards,

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mzongo

>>Try to make sure your proxy is not open proxy.
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>>mzongo
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>Regards,
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>Kwarteng 
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