[CentOS] Had to POWER OFF CentOS 5.1!

[nate]

Frank M. Ramaekers wrote:
> I was running a simple script and the system became unresponsive.  I
> went to the console and couldn't get it to respond, so I had to POWER
> OFF!   Ugh!
>
> (Note: this script, get-backup, ran fine on a CentOS 4.5 system)
>

> Ideas as to a methodology to diagnose the problem?

Monitor memory usage while the script is running, there is an apparent
leak somewhere. The system ran out of memory and tried to kill some stuff
but sometimes it isn't successful in killing enough in time and the system
will hang.

nate