On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 01:53:29PM -0600, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
(Anthere
<anthere6(a)yahoo.com>)m>):
Say Lee, the last connexion to the french wiki was
done at 11:21 am
It was down from 11:21 to about a couple of minutes
ago (that is 20:23)
Between these two times (so ... 9 hours...),
absolutely NO connexions were possible
I just checked ...was the same on the en apparently
so....which traffic ? from where ? from who ? any idea
Well, that's the first time I'd heard that. And there's
only one server: just because there's no traffic on one of
the many wikis doesn't mean the server isn't busy as hell.
The only message I got this morning was "the wiki is down".
That didn't tell me anything, so I logged on and saw that
the CPU load was maxed out, and that there were hundreds
of active connections. Looked like regular traffic to me.
It seems to be responding better now after the kick, but
I'm reluctant to restart the server (which involves breaking
all active connections) unless I get a more specific report
than "the wiki is down".
Well, hard to expect much more than that from a user who doesn't have a
login to the server itself. By the way, my guess is that some query, or
perhaps some quirk, had caused MySQL to lock up. All of the apache
processes were likely in a blocked state, waiting for MySQL to respond.
Just because there are lots of processes running, doesn't mean they're
actually responding.
--
Nick Reinking -- eschewing obfuscation since 1981 -- Minneapolis, MN