server went down

I guess your not running your garden variety AMD 500 Linux server?

Keith


----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Warner <wwarner@direct-alliance.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: server went down


> this would be nice but at almost $70k a pop extra servers like
> these aren't just laying around fully functional.
>
> Bill W
>
>
> On 16 Feb 2001 16:29:39 -0800, wrote:
> > I've a suggestion..
> >
> > why not set up the new kernel on an identical machine and
> > mirror the old baox with all the current data.
> >
> > if it fails, its a simple matter to put the other box back on the
circuit
> > with only minimal time lost.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 16 February 2001, Bill Warner wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > A little nervous about running a 2.4 on this server it is our
> > > money maker and runs direct sales for a big computer
manufacturer
> > > that you have all heard off (client confidentiality or I would
say)
> > > If this thing has down time it costs severalhundred sales a
minute.
> > > 2.2.x just has that tried and true warm fuzzy with it while 2.4
> > > still has that new car smell. I cant find anyone that is
running
> > > a server with this many telnet sessions at thes ame time to even
> > > compare notes with. Even web servers and database servers dont
> > > have this same kind of load.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the sugestin though
> > >
> > > Bill W
> > >
> > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 06:25:37PM -0700, Brian Cluff wrote:
> > > > You might want to try running a 2.4 kernel if you aren't
already. It's
> > > > supposed to take care problems like you are describing, and
you'll get a lot
> > > > better bang for your buck from the CPU's.
> > > > Just be care if you are running Reiser on RAID, there are some
curruption
> > > > problems with that setup... otherwise.. good stuff!
> > > >
> > > > Brian Cluff
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > 5:23pm up 2:15, 191 users, load average: 11.46, 11.16,
14.25
> > > > > 872 processes: 858 sleeping, 14 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> > > > > CPU0 states: 18.3% user, 81.5% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0%
idle
> > > > > CPU1 states: 17.0% user, 83.0% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0%
idle
> > > > > CPU2 states: 18.7% user, 81.1% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0%
idle
> > > > > CPU3 states: 17.1% user, 82.7% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0%
idle
> > > > > Mem: 3954672K av, 2090204K used, 1864468K free, 573700K
shrd, 331720K

> > > > > buff
> > > > > Swap: 1056092K av,    1684K used, 1054408K free

1453604K
> > > > > cached
> > > > >
> > > > > this quad system constantly has 80% useage on all 4 procs???
is this
> > > > > normal???
> > > > >
> > > > > We hit 650 users today and had to reboot. Not good. The
system was
> > > > > still
> > > > > running but the load was so high that it would not move.
There seem to
> > > > > be atleast
> > > > > 2-3 process left hanging after someone logs out.
usually -sh and our
> > > > > bussness
> > > > > application.
> > > > >
> > > > > What in a program can cause it not to die when your session
is over? and
> > > > > what can i do to help clean these up rather than
> >
> > just haveing greping
> > > > > them out
> > > > > of a ps and killing them?
> > > > >
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> > > > > Direct Alliance Corp.
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