ANNOUNCEMENT: Forum Down on 27/04/04
Moderators: jifflemon, coyote1980, Rachel
- dragon
- Volvo 480 Club Europe CREW
- Posts: 3705
- Joined: Mon Nov 18, 2002 5:33 pm
- Location: South Yorkshire, UK
- Contact:
ANNOUNCEMENT: Forum Down on 27/04/04
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...
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...
Cheers! [img]http://www.dragons.org.uk/images/guin.gif[/img]
Gaz Wilson
1997 V70R AWD in Saffron, RICA 580, hot hot HOT!
1995 480 Turbo, Flame Red Metallic/Jacquard-Leather
1993 480 turbo, Vase Green Metallic/Jacquard-Leather
1995 Range Rover 4.6 HSE V8 - Full leather and more!
http://volvo480.northernscum.org.uk <--- Full spec!
Got horses? - [url=http://www.horse-teeth.co.uk][img]http://www.northernscum.org.uk/avatars/ggedt_anim.gif[/img][/url]
Gaz Wilson
1997 V70R AWD in Saffron, RICA 580, hot hot HOT!
1995 480 Turbo, Flame Red Metallic/Jacquard-Leather
1993 480 turbo, Vase Green Metallic/Jacquard-Leather
1995 Range Rover 4.6 HSE V8 - Full leather and more!
http://volvo480.northernscum.org.uk <--- Full spec!
Got horses? - [url=http://www.horse-teeth.co.uk][img]http://www.northernscum.org.uk/avatars/ggedt_anim.gif[/img][/url]
- martinholmesuk
- Friend of Club 480 Europe
- Posts: 10049
- Joined: Thu Sep 05, 2002 9:43 pm
- Location: West Sussex
-
- 480 Is my middle name
- Posts: 2684
- Joined: Thu Oct 09, 2003 7:16 pm
- Location: Chichester, West Sussex
- Contact:
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...
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...
1996 Mini Classic 1275.
- dragon
- Volvo 480 Club Europe CREW
- Posts: 3705
- Joined: Mon Nov 18, 2002 5:33 pm
- Location: South Yorkshire, UK
- Contact:
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 £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)...
So I have actually got what was my old Linux box from home (which has what was at the time a £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)...
Cheers! [img]http://www.dragons.org.uk/images/guin.gif[/img]
Gaz Wilson
1997 V70R AWD in Saffron, RICA 580, hot hot HOT!
1995 480 Turbo, Flame Red Metallic/Jacquard-Leather
1993 480 turbo, Vase Green Metallic/Jacquard-Leather
1995 Range Rover 4.6 HSE V8 - Full leather and more!
http://volvo480.northernscum.org.uk <--- Full spec!
Got horses? - [url=http://www.horse-teeth.co.uk][img]http://www.northernscum.org.uk/avatars/ggedt_anim.gif[/img][/url]
Gaz Wilson
1997 V70R AWD in Saffron, RICA 580, hot hot HOT!
1995 480 Turbo, Flame Red Metallic/Jacquard-Leather
1993 480 turbo, Vase Green Metallic/Jacquard-Leather
1995 Range Rover 4.6 HSE V8 - Full leather and more!
http://volvo480.northernscum.org.uk <--- Full spec!
Got horses? - [url=http://www.horse-teeth.co.uk][img]http://www.northernscum.org.uk/avatars/ggedt_anim.gif[/img][/url]
- dragon
- Volvo 480 Club Europe CREW
- Posts: 3705
- Joined: Mon Nov 18, 2002 5:33 pm
- Location: South Yorkshire, UK
- Contact:
No it isn't?
Cheers! [img]http://www.dragons.org.uk/images/guin.gif[/img]
Gaz Wilson
1997 V70R AWD in Saffron, RICA 580, hot hot HOT!
1995 480 Turbo, Flame Red Metallic/Jacquard-Leather
1993 480 turbo, Vase Green Metallic/Jacquard-Leather
1995 Range Rover 4.6 HSE V8 - Full leather and more!
http://volvo480.northernscum.org.uk <--- Full spec!
Got horses? - [url=http://www.horse-teeth.co.uk][img]http://www.northernscum.org.uk/avatars/ggedt_anim.gif[/img][/url]
Gaz Wilson
1997 V70R AWD in Saffron, RICA 580, hot hot HOT!
1995 480 Turbo, Flame Red Metallic/Jacquard-Leather
1993 480 turbo, Vase Green Metallic/Jacquard-Leather
1995 Range Rover 4.6 HSE V8 - Full leather and more!
http://volvo480.northernscum.org.uk <--- Full spec!
Got horses? - [url=http://www.horse-teeth.co.uk][img]http://www.northernscum.org.uk/avatars/ggedt_anim.gif[/img][/url]
- dragon
- Volvo 480 Club Europe CREW
- Posts: 3705
- Joined: Mon Nov 18, 2002 5:33 pm
- Location: South Yorkshire, UK
- Contact:
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!
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!
Cheers! [img]http://www.dragons.org.uk/images/guin.gif[/img]
Gaz Wilson
1997 V70R AWD in Saffron, RICA 580, hot hot HOT!
1995 480 Turbo, Flame Red Metallic/Jacquard-Leather
1993 480 turbo, Vase Green Metallic/Jacquard-Leather
1995 Range Rover 4.6 HSE V8 - Full leather and more!
http://volvo480.northernscum.org.uk <--- Full spec!
Got horses? - [url=http://www.horse-teeth.co.uk][img]http://www.northernscum.org.uk/avatars/ggedt_anim.gif[/img][/url]
Gaz Wilson
1997 V70R AWD in Saffron, RICA 580, hot hot HOT!
1995 480 Turbo, Flame Red Metallic/Jacquard-Leather
1993 480 turbo, Vase Green Metallic/Jacquard-Leather
1995 Range Rover 4.6 HSE V8 - Full leather and more!
http://volvo480.northernscum.org.uk <--- Full spec!
Got horses? - [url=http://www.horse-teeth.co.uk][img]http://www.northernscum.org.uk/avatars/ggedt_anim.gif[/img][/url]
- dragon
- Volvo 480 Club Europe CREW
- Posts: 3705
- Joined: Mon Nov 18, 2002 5:33 pm
- Location: South Yorkshire, UK
- Contact:
I'm confused - when I post it's the right time (gmt +1 hour)... anyone else seeing "funny" times?
Cheers! [img]http://www.dragons.org.uk/images/guin.gif[/img]
Gaz Wilson
1997 V70R AWD in Saffron, RICA 580, hot hot HOT!
1995 480 Turbo, Flame Red Metallic/Jacquard-Leather
1993 480 turbo, Vase Green Metallic/Jacquard-Leather
1995 Range Rover 4.6 HSE V8 - Full leather and more!
http://volvo480.northernscum.org.uk <--- Full spec!
Got horses? - [url=http://www.horse-teeth.co.uk][img]http://www.northernscum.org.uk/avatars/ggedt_anim.gif[/img][/url]
Gaz Wilson
1997 V70R AWD in Saffron, RICA 580, hot hot HOT!
1995 480 Turbo, Flame Red Metallic/Jacquard-Leather
1993 480 turbo, Vase Green Metallic/Jacquard-Leather
1995 Range Rover 4.6 HSE V8 - Full leather and more!
http://volvo480.northernscum.org.uk <--- Full spec!
Got horses? - [url=http://www.horse-teeth.co.uk][img]http://www.northernscum.org.uk/avatars/ggedt_anim.gif[/img][/url]
- dragon
- Volvo 480 Club Europe CREW
- Posts: 3705
- Joined: Mon Nov 18, 2002 5:33 pm
- Location: South Yorkshire, UK
- Contact:
you do all know you can change your local mtimezone from the edit profile screen, right?
Cheers! [img]http://www.dragons.org.uk/images/guin.gif[/img]
Gaz Wilson
1997 V70R AWD in Saffron, RICA 580, hot hot HOT!
1995 480 Turbo, Flame Red Metallic/Jacquard-Leather
1993 480 turbo, Vase Green Metallic/Jacquard-Leather
1995 Range Rover 4.6 HSE V8 - Full leather and more!
http://volvo480.northernscum.org.uk <--- Full spec!
Got horses? - [url=http://www.horse-teeth.co.uk][img]http://www.northernscum.org.uk/avatars/ggedt_anim.gif[/img][/url]
Gaz Wilson
1997 V70R AWD in Saffron, RICA 580, hot hot HOT!
1995 480 Turbo, Flame Red Metallic/Jacquard-Leather
1993 480 turbo, Vase Green Metallic/Jacquard-Leather
1995 Range Rover 4.6 HSE V8 - Full leather and more!
http://volvo480.northernscum.org.uk <--- Full spec!
Got horses? - [url=http://www.horse-teeth.co.uk][img]http://www.northernscum.org.uk/avatars/ggedt_anim.gif[/img][/url]
- martinholmesuk
- Friend of Club 480 Europe
- Posts: 10049
- Joined: Thu Sep 05, 2002 9:43 pm
- Location: West Sussex