[LRUG] Finding out why server was unresponsive

[Tim Cowlishaw]

On 16 April 2013 11:03, David Salgado <david at digitalronin.com> wrote:

> The only time I've had symptoms similar to that is when a box has
> completely filled up its filesystem - nothing gets logged because there's
> no disk space available into which the log entry can be written.
>
> I can't +1 this enough  - the majority of all the apparently symptomless
ops catastrophes I've ever had to deal with have had a lack of disk space
or incorrect permissions as  a root cause.

Cheers,

Tim
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