Apologies for intermittant service today

[Paul Clerkin]

Server had been a little termpermental - still trying to figure out why I keep having to reboot it....

[Paul Clerkin]

over the last 3 days or so, this has got worse - we're actively investigating it now .....

[sw101]

i thought it was just me. at times archeire seems to work while archiseek is down,

[lexington]

Yeah, it's been pretty bad alright - let us know how things go with it. Thanks Paul.

[Paul Clerkin]

yeah sw101 i think this database is slowly the machine down to a crawl at which stage it grinds to a halt...

[ro_G]

can you put vb onto a more robust db? maybe get oracle to sponsor you

[sw101]

yeah sw101 i think this database is slowly the machine down to a crawl at which stage it grinds to a halt...

that'll be all the fantastic photos.

[Paul Clerkin]

[quote="ro_G"]can you put vb onto a more robust db? maybe get oracle to sponsor you ]

vbb should be well up to it - but there's some dodgy looking records in the database that seem incomplete which could be causing problems...

[ro_G]

maybe a reindex over easter so.

[Paul Clerkin]

Okay

Still trying to get to the bottom of the crashing server.

Spam may be contributing, today there was 998.1 MB used (since Feb 22, 2005)


Basically

"wkr@archeire.com", "ties@archeire.com", "mailse@archeire.com", "rothkopf@archeire.com", "sadist@archeire.com" , "ljf@archeire.com"

ie the world and their mother is being appended to @archeire.com and sent in....

trying to figure out a way of killing the mail completely as setting it to rebound just seems to overload it for some reason


I am really really sorry about this as it causes me much more pain than it does you....

I hate setbacks like this just when the site was beginning to get a head of steam going....

[Paul Clerkin]

according to the guy... "the suexec_log file had grown to about 1.2 GB " so its gone and we'll see what happens....

all greek to me

[sw101]

all greek to me

is this supposed to be reassuring?

[Paul Clerkin]

hey i'm not a sysadmin type - i see myself as a publisher not the guy who keeps the printer working

[sw101]

be all you can be.

all seems fine now. cheers.

[Paul Clerkin]

damn didnt work.... am turning off forums to see if the server stays up.... if it does, maybe we have a glitch in the database....

[Paul Clerkin]

looking for a price on ram - which hopefully will cure the problem

site gets busy you upgrade stuff and forget about the hardware