ANNOUNCEMENT: Forum Down on 27/04/04

dragon · Post by **dragon** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 9:03 am

The forum was down from 02:45 - 10:55 GMT 27/04/04. The cause of this is unknown, the server just completely hung. There's nothing in the logs to suggest why this happened, so accept my apologies for the outage.

I need to recompile the kernel so that if it hangs for more than 15 mins, the server automatically reboots - this is how it was set up before I rebuilt it last month, so I shall implement that sometime this week, which will mean another small outage as the machine reboots, but I'll let you know when I decide to do that...

martinholmesuk · Post by **martinholmesuk** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 9:09 am

Thanks mate, Did you get my txt about it or did you change numers?

Martin

MatBat · Post by **MatBat** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 11:12 am

Message on behalf of Dragon

Apologies for the server crashing again, a mysterious kernel panic is the cause, most likely by some small difference in the kernel configuration. I shall be investigating rebuilding the kernel today/tonight as long as the server stays up long enough...

Glival · Post by **Glival** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 4:37 am

Well it's up again

If you continue to experience problems, maybe I could temporarily host the forum?

dragon · Post by **dragon** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 4:39 am

What a night... Because I didn't habe the tools at work to diagnose the problem with the server in depth, I took some spare ram (as I suspected this was at fault) and swapped it around a bit, but to no success, server still randomly crashed, so I decided to just take the server home and maybe make a new one (as I had my brother's old motherboard at home (which is actually a faster CPU than the server)), got home, built new server into shiney new industrial case, but I couldn't get anything out of it - BIOS beeps told me nothing, because it was just continual long beeps with pauses between, and no webpage tells me what 1-1-1 or 1-1-1-1 is on a Phoenix bios... Anyway, decided the super processor had died, which kind of left me stuck with no hardware. Decided to try known good ram from home in original server, then I noticed something: no matter what size DIMMs I put in (256, or 512MB), each slot only recognised it as a max of 128MB, so I suspect the motherboard is the cause of the random crashes. OK, so I need to buy new hardware for the server, but it's the wrong time of the month so I cannot afford, so what do I do? Can't just leave the forum down...

So I have actually got what was my old Linux box from home (which has what was at the time a Â£1500 motherboard in) and decided to use that - it's twin PII-400 instead of a uniprocessor PIII 933, and it's only got 384MB ram instead of 512MB, but I think it'll do the job until I decide what to do for the best in the long run.

So there we are, 3am finish and I have a server, drive to work at 7am to install and by 08:30, here we are again. Stable for the forseeable future (touches wood quickly)...

Glival · Post by **Glival** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 8:01 am

Thanks for your time and money

If it's just for the forum, I think this dual CPU-server will do its job.
The time is wrong by the way.

dragon · Post by **dragon** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 11:39 am

No it isn't?

dragon · Post by **dragon** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 11:50 am

The bandwidth chart makes interesting reading, even after only a few hours of uptime

Times are in BST, you can clearly see where you continental europeans take lunch, then
a slight lull, then where the UK people start taking their lunchtime!

Guess what everyone seems to do with their lunchtimes!

Glival · Post by **Glival** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 1:16 pm

dragon wrote:No it isn't?

At the bottom of this page it says "All times are GMT + 1 Hour", which isn't true.. maybe it has always been this way?

Glival · Post by **Glival** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 1:18 pm

I'm also quite sure I didn't post my first reply in this thread at 5:37, and not even 6:37 or 7:37.

volvofox · Post by **volvofox** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 2:42 pm

hey, lets not fight about such uninportant issues such as time.

Shit happens.
Lets all be very thankfull someone cleared this shit (by means out of his own pocket)

said before. this dragon is a real plus to this site.

may he keep on farting fire for ever

Glival · Post by **Glival** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 3:02 pm

I just noticed it, I'm very thankful for what Dragon has done for the club as I mentioned before

dragon · Post by **dragon** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 7:18 pm

I'm confused - when I post it's the right time (gmt +1 hour)... anyone else seeing "funny" times?

ESone · Post by **ESone** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 7:20 pm

right time for me but i am GMT+2

dragon · Post by **dragon** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 7:22 pm

you do all know you can change your local mtimezone from the edit profile screen, right?

ESone · Post by **ESone** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 7:24 pm

Sure and it's logic i got gmt +2 because of the continental time...

martinholmesuk · Post by **martinholmesuk** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 1:21 pm

The times are always wrong when I post. Anyways....

Guess what everyone seems to do with their lunchtimes!

You guessed right. Well done with all the hard work you did this week.
How about a 480 trip with weekend to see the server?