virtualmin disappears until i reboot

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hi all -

this is sorta weird, but virtualmin/webmin seems to disappear after a week or so, until i reboot.

i did think enough to run a “ps -ef” before and after, and some processes are disappearing:

ps -ef immediately after boot:

root 9735 1 0 07:32 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/libexec/usermin/miniserv.pl /etc/usermin/miniserv.conf

root 9765 1 0 07:32 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/libexec/webmin/miniserv.pl /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf

root 11425 9765 0 07:33 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/libexec/webmin/miniserv.pl /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf

root 11427 9765 0 07:33 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/libexec/webmin/miniserv.pl /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf

root 11471 9765 0 07:33 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/libexec/webmin/miniserv.pl /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf

root 17585 9765 4 07:35 ? 00:00:00 [miniserv.pl]

ps -ef after a week or so:

root 9735 1 0 May27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/libexec/usermin/miniserv.pl /etc/usermin/miniserv.conf

root 9765 1 0 May27 ? 00:00:12 /usr/bin/perl /usr/libexec/webmin/miniserv.pl /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf

somewhere somehow processes seem to be getting knocked out.

anybody have any ideas what might cause that?

thanks!

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Howdy,

We typically see things like that when dealing with resource problems – issues like to little RAM, and often while on OpenVZ-based VPS’s.

What is the output of these two commands:

free -m cat /proc/user_beancounters

That should help show if there’s any resource issues going on.

-Eric