[axxs-sysadmin] Aotearoa indymedia down

[yuda at anarchism.org.nz]

Hi,

I'm getting a Database error message on this page:  
http://indymedia.org.nz/newswire/display/72389/index.php
guessing it's something to do with a comment that's not showing up

YudA

Quoting Dave Fregon <dave at netaxxs.com.au>:

> On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 14:55 +1300, Danyl Strype wrote:
>> Kia ora koutou
>
> gudday
>
>> Aotearoa Indymedia site is timing out. Is this a problem affecting the
>> whole Axxs server or just our site?
>
> The whole server :|
>
>> If it's just us, do you have any
>> idea what we can do to get ourselves back online?
>
> As you may have noticed, it's back up ;)
>
> Axxs.org suffered major load issues, and was worked on all this morning,
> ending in a mysql update to 4.1.21-2 and reconfigure of settings while
> we look at going to 5.
>
>> I keep getting piles of emails with the subject header:
>> >> Cron <nzindymedia at axxs> /usr/bin/curl -s -S -m 1200 -y 50 -Y 20
>> >> http://indymedia.org.nz/cronmaster.php >>
>> >> $HOME/httpdocs/logs/cronmaster.log <<
>>
>> and the body text:
>> >> curl: (28) Operation too slow. Less than 20 bytes/sec transfered
>> >> the last 50 seconds <<
>>
>> I have no idea what this means. Does this have anything to do with it?
>
> it was timing out just because of the load on the server ... at one
> stage, it showed :
>
> load average: 138.18, 122.85, 77.70
>
> which is kinda 'high' :)
>
> HTTPD is high too, and looking at squid caches for sites to help with
> the issue till we can get the new server underway and move some of the
> high usage sites onto a bigger machine.
>
> anyway it's known. the issue is still being looked at, most folk have
> been too busy to post here while battling the flames :)
>
> Dave
>
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