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:: 15-Jan-2002 08:06 (Tuesday) ::
AT&T seems to be having some issues in their network right now. I’m having
great difficulty getting to stats, although nodezero can hit the box fine.
Anyway, if you’re having trouble hitting any of our servers, I suggest
you just try again later.
:: 15-Jan-2002 00:41 (Tuesday) ::
It’s Bovine’s birthday today! (15-Jan)
:: 12-Jan-2002 23:33 (Saturday) ::
Well, there’s good news and bad news.
Good news: I think I’ve finally squashed the last bug in the new statsrun
code, which was occasionally making the statsrun fail, requiring manual
intervention.
Bad news: as part of my debugging, I accidentally deleted all the OGR data
since 12/22/2001. No user or team settings were lost, so all that needs
to happen is re-running OGR from the 22nd to today. I’m going to do this
with web access turned off, so I’m hoping it will be done sometime tomorrow.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
:: 11-Jan-2002 20:16 (Friday) ::
I’m trying to track down more bugs in the statsrun code, so I have web
access turned off again so I’m not fighting for CPU. Should be back on in
an hour or so.
:: 10-Jan-2002 22:37 (Thursday) ::
Good news! We found the problem that was causing Sybase to crash. It was
a FreeTDS misconfiguration.
There is now only one obstacle preventing us from fully utilizing blower’s
capability: we can’t get multiple Sybase engines to run.
Running more than one engine results in random connections periodically
hanging for long periods of time (60+ seconds). Whenever this happens, we
get ‘ninit: set process group xxxxx, no such process’. Also, attempting
to dump/backup the database would result in Sybase just hanging (backups
work fine with a single engine, though)
This is Sybase 11.0.3 running on FreeBSD 4.4. We’ve tried the suggestions
in http://lists.openresources.com/FreeBSD/freebsd-database/msg00062.html,
to no avail.
If anyone’s been able to get multiple engines running under FreeBSD, advice
would be much appreciated! }:8)
:: 07-Jan-2002 18:04 (Monday) ::
I’m working on some stats changes that will require a short outage of the
website. Also, we’ll be cutting back over to blower for www for a short
time to better understand why running web access off blower lunches Sybase.
That test should hopefully be pretty seamless for users, though.
:: 06-Jan-2002 21:31 (Sunday) ::
Just to update folks on what’s up with stats; it’s having some issues with
Sybase unhappiness. To try and work around/isolate the problem, I’ve cut
way back on the number of webserver processes running. This will probably
manifest itself during the RC5 run, with people being unable to connect
to the database.
http://decibel.org/~decibel/stuff/freebsd-database.txt has details. I’m
not sure if this is FreeBSD related or not, as I recall having a very
similar problem on tally a year or two ago.
:: 04-Jan-2002 22:45 (Friday) ::
No joy on the memory upgrade. The Dell 6450 that we have has a memory card
that will only take EDO, while the memory we bought is SDRAM. Hopefully,
we can replace the memory board, as it would seem silly to by putting
several year old memory technology into the box.
Anyway, stats should be up again shortly.
:: 04-Jan-2002 20:49 (Friday) ::
There will be a brief downtime of stats while we install new memory.
:: 03-Jan-2002 09:53 (Thursday) ::
I’m going to turn webaccess off for a bit to help blower catch up on rc5.
Access will automatically come back in two hours.