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On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 11:39, Alexander Gretencord wrote: |
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> On Monday 05 August 2002 18:15, Jason Pratt wrote: |
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> > Are the forums no longer available? I can't access them :( |
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> Somebody on #gentoo said something about bad ram. I find it annoying that |
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> theres nothing on the gentoo page or on the mailling lists from official |
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> staff. Could you pls comment and give an ETA ? (Even if it says we dunno when |
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> we get the new ram but say something :)) |
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In an attempt to satisfy your questions here is the scoop. |
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The forums have been plagued since a few months after starting. At |
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first they were started on my personal server, worked great, but soon |
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started chewing too much bandwith. We moved them to primary gentoo |
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server (ie: the one that handles gentoo.org, mailing lists, cvs, and |
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primary rsync mirror). That was okay for a while, but soon we started |
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to chew too much CPU and there wasn't to go around for all the other |
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services, and the forums were taking a hit. |
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Soon after, we moved them once again. Kurt Lieber, the other global |
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moderator, had talked to a guy who would give us colo and rack space and |
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about 5Mb/s of bandwidth. Kurt chipped in and donated the hardware and |
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the new server was born. This worked great for about a month or two and |
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then we ran in to more problems. :( Apparently the last week or two one |
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of our stick of RAM started dying. So, I had a nice little surpise of a |
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bunch of logged segfaults. Common forum visitors may have noticed the |
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database connection error message, that was because MySQL was touching |
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(or trying to), touch the bad RAM; not us hitting the max connections as |
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I originally thought. I'm not 100% sure when the RAM first started to |
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die, but it may have been at most a month ago, and may have been the |
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reason the kernel paniced and we were down for about 10 hours. |
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So, the RAM was replaced with a stick of Kingston DDR PC2100 ECC. |
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Server came up yesterday at around noon (central time), and I check it |
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out, seemed that the other problems healed up for the most part. |
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Then, we went down again yesterday at about 6:15 (central time), our |
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provider (the guy who is donating the bandwidth and colo rack, started |
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to make his move to the new datacenter. Fun. We died for another few |
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hours and were back up before I went to bed. Now, it is Aug 6, 1:50 and |
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the server is again unreachable. I think our provider is playing with |
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his routers. Umm, so we are once again in the dark (I guess we get what |
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we pay for huh? :)) |
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Hopefully he will finish soon, and we might actually be stable for once. |
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To answer the argument that has been brewing here, the forums are in |
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part run by actual Gentoo developers. This is primarily me, and few |
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developers moderate appropriate forums. Most of the other moderators |
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are simply users. |
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I was hoping I could wait and write this email later and be able to tell |
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you all that the server is finally stable, but it isn't. I guess I will |
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write that email later. |
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Holy cow, did I write all this? Jeez.. |
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> Alex |
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> -- |
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> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety |
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> deserve neither liberty nor safety." |
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> Benjamin Franklin |
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