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As usual - strange things happening to my Linux box




Yesterday was some strange day... Everything just failed...(at work)

Today's morning proved that it was everywhere...

I didn't touched my box yesterday, it was locked with xlock...

I tried to unlock it in the morning, but I couldn't (I thought that
somehow I have screwed my passwd... So I tried to connect from my second
linux box, any services were refused...

When I switched to console I tried to login from console I have received:
dl_boot: mmap of /dev/zero failed
init: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
the same for all the other consoles

luckily I have found an open console 1 from where I started x..., but I
could execute no program... the response was:
kernel: Unable to load interpreter

then somehow when I switched back to x A-C-F7 I heard my disk working and
then xlock has been released...

I have had a second to see that I was out of Memory. Then in a few seconds
all the memory has been released without me doing anything...

Just to make you know, I have 64M SDRAM and 100M swap partition. 
I'm not running any special things... As usual

How it happened that soddenly I went out of 160M? (My box is not connected
to the Internet ) I suppose it was some memory leak from some daemon...
But again I have used a box 2 days ago with no problem (just afew
connections to the Internet...) and was idle for the whole day...

I watched the logs and couldn't see a thing...

Feb  4 01:08:41 localhost pppd[28875]: Terminating on signal 2.
Feb  4 01:08:42 localhost pppd[28875]: Connection terminated.
Feb  4 01:08:42 localhost pppd[28875]: Exit.
Feb  4 01:10:25 localhost kernel: PPP: ppp line discipline successfully
unregistered
Feb  4 03:54:01 localhost kernel: Unable to load interpreter
Feb  4 03:55:00 localhost kernel: Unable to load interpreter
and about 2000 lines of the same error

see after 3 hours I have received the error...

Any ideas?

Now everything is OK, I even didn't reboot the machine...

Thanks

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