Downtime

[Uncle Jesse]

Sorry folks, my fault.

HD has been running out of RAM recently so I arranged for 2 more gigs from our service provider. It costs more but they gave me a deal on it since I'm a long time customer.

Got the RAM and rebooted not realizing the server was not in shape to do it!

Had to spend hours doing what is known in FreeBSD land as "making world" which means rebuilding the entire system from source. Couldn't bring HD up while doing this.

Still finishing up with this upgrade. Went from FreeBSD 11.0 to 11.1 which includes a lot of good enhancements and security fixes but... sorry for the downtime!

Again, not quite finished.

[cob]

Uncle Jesse; I'm going to nominate you for sainthood, ya I know rule #5,

but your getting nominated regardless

[jon1163]

Thanks brother for all the work you put into the site so that we can all meet up and bull#&*-

[Uncle Jesse]

For those of you who speak tech geek, we were averaging 44-50% swap use. Now we aren't swapping. I've done some intensive MySQL operations and we're currently sitting at 683MB free RAM.

Much better.

[Still Life]

Thought the reading finally sent me blind when the site went dark.
Glad the site is back up and healthier than ever.
You're the best, Uncle Jesse.

[Uncle Jesse]

Sorry folks. Site went down again sometime last night - actually powered off! I'm not sure why. I've fixed it and will contact the ISP to see if they had a power out... but this one was strange. I'll be keeping an eye on it today.

[nuntius01]

great work

[Uncle Jesse]

Still haven't swapped. Looking good!

[Worm_Drippinz]

Thank you UJ. ...and to the rest of the lot fer puttin' up with me.

[Canuckwoods]

Thanks, Uncle Jesse
I don't think most of us realize how much time and effort goes into sites like this.

[Uncle Jesse]

Second time in a few days the system was powered off. I'm in touch with the ISP and looking into causes.

[RedwoodHillBilly]

I've found that "shutdown -h now" generally isn't a good idea in the daily cron job

[Uncle Jesse]

Hopefully found the issue. Rebooted a bit ago which some of you may have noticed.

Keeping a close eye on the server.

[Coyotey]

"Bridge to Engineering"...."Scotty, status on the new reactor" ...."You'll have warp capability in a jiffy, running diagnostics now...stand by"

Thanks for your efforts and a great platform Uncle Jesse! Make sure you have enough time for stillin too though!

Skål!

[Chixter]

Thanks for all your work and dedication.

[fizzix]

Like the others, I appreciate all you do Uncle Jesse, and thanks for allowing my sorry butt to join.
I thought maybe someone kicked the extension cord out of the socket this morning when the site was down.
I know you're on it though.

[Uncle Jesse]

I've got the ISP scratching their heads. Meanwhile I have checked, double-checked, triple-checked everything on the server and I can't find any reason for it to power down every day. I don't get it. I'll keep trying until it is fixed for good.

[fizzix]

If it's any help, it's been going down around 4am thru 6am Central U.S. time.
Out at 6-ish CST this morning (Dec. 9th).
Anything power related at that time or alien abduction schedule?

[StillerBoy]

This maybe of help..
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id- ... maged.html

https://redmondmag.com/articles/2011/03 ... tages.aspx

Mars

[Kareltje]

Maybe if we all donate our fores and heads to use as fuel?
It feels desolated, if I can not reach HD.
But all my respect for your attempts, Uncle Jesse! Thank you!

[Uncle Jesse]

ISP dropped us back to 4 gigs of RAM and no power off weirdness last night.

Huh?

[Expat]

ISP dropped us back to 4 gigs of RAM and no power off weirdness last night.

Huh?

Sounds like the VM host is having issues, over allocated perhaps.

Side note, Thank you for all you do to keep the site online!

[Uncle Jesse]

ISP dropped us back to 4 gigs of RAM and no power off weirdness last night.

Huh?

Sounds like the VM host is having issues, over allocated perhaps.

Side note, Thank you for all you do to keep the site online!

Yet another reason FreeBSD jails are better than Xen or VMWare.

[Uncle Jesse]

Still running. I really believe the bump to 6 gigs of RAM from 4 gigs somehow caused those crashes.

I did a ton of work on the unix side trying to tighten things up and couldn't find anything which would cause the server to power down.

Unix servers don't normally power down. They core dump or panic or reboot.

Still keeping an eye on it.

[Single Malt Yinzer]

Put SNMP on it & setup a monitoring server locally. Solarwinds, tons of other that you can run free for a small number of nodes. I doubt it will give you the root cause but it might point you in the right direction. Plus : STATS AND GRAPHS! Who can resist them?!?!?!

And thanks as always!

[fizzix]

Uncle Jesse, don't forget to reset The Parent Site.

[hellbilly007]

UJ, I know you're a busy man. Just wanted to let ya know the parent site is down today at 1612 Eastern time. Thanks for providing a place for hooligan to conspire and learn from one another