Server Crash Today

[paman]

:ranger:
Hi all,

As some of you may know, they EF server was offline for a brief period of time this morning. The reason was due to a hung process taking up 400% of the system resources, thus locking up the server. After the server was rebooted and the process was killed, service was restored.

Although no database corruptions were detected, I still invite you to send me a message if you notice anything going bonkers since this incident.

Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks.

[bridge]

Thanks for your quick help.
This explains why I can't access this site all day long.

[Davita]

Yes, and thank you for the notice.

David

[donfuego]

Was it the fault of the hosting service or entirely self inflicted? :)

[Gratilla]

Was it the fault of the hosting service or entirely self inflicted? :)


The reason was due to a hung process taking up 400% of the system resources, thus locking up the server.

That is, a bug in a program that sends the CPU into a frantic loop.

Also, a yuphemis..., ufami... , hyufemi..., same thing as someone not paying the bill.

[TheBrightBlue]

I need to wait up to 1.5 hours to open this forum site today (was trying to log in at 12pm but just now i can log in). Mmmmm... Anyone gets the same problem or only me?

[kingwilly]

Paman, I seem to be missing about 200 reputation points, can you please remedy

[paman]

Was it the fault of the hosting service or entirely self inflicted? :)

Self-inflicted. After further investigation it appears that the resources on the server panics whenever we get a spike in traffic. I'm optimizing configurations right now to help prevent this in the future.


Paman, I seem to be missing about 200 reputation points, can you please remedy

You need to have 200 points removed? I'm on it! ;)

[paman]

k. I've reconfigured Apache (webserver) and MySQL (database) settings. It has greatly reduced usage (down to 90-100MB from 180MB++). As long as we don't get further major spikes, we should be just fine.

[atlantis]

I need to wait up to 1.5 hours to open this forum site today (was trying to log in at 12pm but just now i can log in). Mmmmm... Anyone gets the same problem or only me?
I had the same. Could not open the forum. Tried half an hour and gave up.

[stt_cibubur]

I have problem accessing the forum using Firefox ...is it only me or anybody else?
IE and Chrome are OK.

[waarmstrong]

Same, here, Atlantis. Gave up after 40 minutes. Actually got some real work done during the interim. Scary: the crash is getting in the way of my effort to be unproductive in retirement

[atlantis]

Same, here, Atlantis. Gave up after 40 minutes. Actually got some real work done during the interim. Scary: the crash is getting in the way of my effort to be unproductive in retirement
Hahaha. I did the same. I've spent the whole day working in our land, cutting grass, planting trees and carrying tons of goods from one place to another. Our gardener sure prefers to see me working on my computer. He has finished the day exhausted and so do I. Please Paman, do something. :smile2:

[waarmstrong]

What ever fix was in, apparently was less than perfect as I was getting some sort of "Data Base" error throughout most of this Jakarta morning. I hope the latest effort is not in the tidak apa apa spirit.

[gffgold]

Not a very auspicious start to the new hosting arrangements.

[paman]

What ever fix was in, apparently was less than perfect as I was getting some sort of "Data Base" error throughout most of this Jakarta morning. I hope the latest effort is not in the tidak apa apa spirit.

The original problem was handled with. The database issue is a new thing I need to figure out. I'll keep you guys up-to-date.


Not a very auspicious start to the new hosting arrangements.

Yeah haha. The thing was that before we had a shared account that was pretty much was handled by the hosting company. Now since we are on the VPS box, I'm the one who has to figure out the problems. It may take a little longer for me to respond. For example I found out about the database issue while I was out with some mates, so it took me awhile before I was back at a computer.

[waarmstrong]

I guess will need to chain that boy to the box.

[kingwilly]

i find that bashing the keyboard repeatedly until the software lets you in tends to help, shout if necessary.

[paman]

We've upgraded our server to add additional memory. We should have more then enough memory now to handle all requests. This was one our biggest issues that I thought we could overcome by optimizing the config files, but apparently that wasn't the case.

[waarmstrong]

I can sympathize, being one who usually tries to get by on the cheap, before bank-rolling a more expensive fix.