:: 23-May-2000 02:01 (Tuesday) ::
Statsbox update….
The box has definitely degraded… it’s been down more than it’s been up
today. At this point, our priority is just to get a solid backup before
we’re totally dead in the water.
Based on the few useful error messages from /var/log/messages, this seems
to be a virtual memory issue, and we can also tell that one of the drives
is failing, so a safe bet would be that the swap partition on that drive
is giving us fits. A donated RAID controller should be on it’s way, which
would solve this *IF* it was in fact the drive that was to blame, but
that’s a pretty big *IF*. There’s also been discussion of flat-out
purchasing a box from a major manufacturer, with on-site tech support,
etc. But it would take some time before such a box could be put into
production, so hopefully we can stabilize statsbox in the meantime.
More info as available…