What do you guys think is keeping the server running so slow? If you think it is those viruses trying to exploit these forums, you are very wrong. When I fix something, I try to make sure it is better how I left it than it was before.
- Mark Hass. I'm not sure if that is the correct guy, but a username of markhass running on this server (server2a.woolnet.net)'s spam daemon is sucking down 35% of the total RAM (not included paged memory) and is usually causing the server loads to go from an average of 1.5 to an average of 20 - 50. On a 2.8GHz Pentinum 4, thats pretty bad. My method of fixing this is to manually restart exim, which usually makes the problem go away, but I cannot restart spamd.
- Master Rater from Premier League. Seriously, do you really need to run that one CGI script at least 40 times everytime you update data? Running processes usually go from ~120 to 300+ real quick from somewhere dealing with Master Rater. Usually only lasts 5 minutes, but when they stop doing their data updates or whatever, they have a whole bunch of scripts that never end, but don't actually do anything. Sometimes, it gets really clogged up, and processes sit doing nothing and just keep growing. I manually restart apache when the running processes gets stuck over 300 for a while, which drops it down to around 70. This usually works for a couple of days.
So, what are we (Shanky and I) going to do to fix these problems? Well, #1 is to get the hell away from that markhass guy who must be getting at least 500 emails with 2 gigs worth of data attached a second. We are upgrading our hosting options for like $2 and doubling our space/bandwidth (which we are no where near the limit of) which will cause us to move to his newest server. I don't know when we are moving.
As for dealing with master rater? I'll just bitch at those guys for a while to actually debug their damn scripts. Or I'll just look over them myself and fix it for them. Its sort of like how I have to backup Star Wars Realm for them because they never patch their stuff, and get hacked every so often which causes them to loose all their data. Ugh.
Contempt+ - Wed Jun 22, 2005 12:09 am
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Oh, ok.. Didn't know that, now I do. thanks
newb - Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:27 am
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Got ban? Please.
Solo X - Fri Jul 01, 2005 2:37 pm
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w.e SSU still is a really bad server and A380 is still an ass
Cerium - Fri Jul 01, 2005 3:07 pm
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Feel free to fix the MR stuff... im sure no one on our end will notice.
Ap/Foul have been busy with non-ss stuff. I dont think the script youre talking about has been updated in atleast a year.