Occasionally I crash one of the machines we run Mongo on by maxing out the memory in another application. Is there anyway to start up mongodb after it crashes without restarting the whole machine? I’ve tried starting the mongodb service again but this didn’t seem to do the job.
FYI, I just had a machine here where the MongoDB instance died recently. It claimed that it ran out of swap space, so see if you’ve assigned a static amount of swap.