Re: Strange Server Behavior

>     Rusty,

>     I am running another test now, with the following services running

>     exim4
>     cups
>     apache2
>     openvpnas
>     cups
>     ntp

>     I will keep you posted.

>     Mark

>     On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Carruth, Rusty
>     <Rusty.Carruth@smartstoragesys.com
>     <mailto:Rusty.Carruth@smartstoragesys.com>> wrote:

>         Well, I had to ask J____

>         __ __

>         I’d say its ‘divide and conquer time’ like I suggested earlier –
>         enable half (approx) of the services and run the test.  If it
>         passes, turn those off and then turn on the other half, rerun
>         test.  If it passes, life gets hard, and I’m going to ignore
>         that possibility for now!  Whichever test fails, repeat the
>         above with that reduced set of services.____

>         __ __

>         If both halves pass, then there is some interaction between the
>         services, and it’s not so easy as divide and conquer.   (but of
>         course, if a service depends upon another one to be fully
>         functional (apache and mysql are likely examples) then you’ll
>         have to keep those services together till the bitter end (as it
>         were)).____

>         __ __

>         However, there is still hope someone here has another idea…____

>         __ __

>         Rusty____

>         __ __

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>         *Subject:* Re: Strange Server Behavior____

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>         Rusty,

>         The test was run from 11 PM to 7 AM, so no one in my house was
>         doing anything but sawing logs, as far as I know. Yes, teenagers
>         tend to stay up late, but I would have heard the tv. I don't
>         think any of the other machines are really doing anything at
>         that time as well.

>         I don't think anyone is using my wifi....I have a 64 character
>         key for AES and mac address filter for security. Yes, I know one
>         can eaily spoof the mac address thing, but it keeps some out. I
>         also have not seen anything strange in the logs.

>         Rsync is a good idea, but I agree - fragile, lots to set up, but
>         maybe worth a thought if nfs tends to be the problem. Maybe a
>         script to check if a local folder has changed, and then rsync
>         it........

>         Mark____

>         On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Carruth, Rusty
>         <Rusty.Carruth@smartstoragesys.com
>         <mailto:Rusty.Carruth@smartstoragesys.com>> wrote:____

>         Well, NFS server is less likely (I think!) to cause momentary
>         freezes than the client, but samba MIGHT be an idea.  Hopefully
>         someone else here has more experience with the server side of
>         things, or maybe google would help.____

>         ____

>         On the upload video thing – if you wanted to go to a lot of
>         work, you could put directories on each computer that
>         periodically get rsync’d (or whatever) to the server, so that
>         the family members only need to copy the movie to the directory
>         on their machine and it will automatically get copied across.
>         But that may be more work and fragility than you want J  (and
>         might make you more expendable!).  but that could get rid of nfs
>         or samba or any such thing.  Probably not worth doing if NFS
>         isn’t’ the issue J, so I’d say turn on half the processes and
>         see what happens, as I mentioned before..____

>         ____

>         Thinking about the system for a bit – first the schedule of when
>         things freeze.  Does it line up with anything being done on the
>         client machines?  On the TV? What ‘absolute time’ (wall clock
>         time) were those 38 incidents at?  (If clients do something
>         every 30 minutes, and they are out of sync with each other, that
>         might explain the variability of the hiccup timing)____

>         ____

>         Going a bit further afield: Have you verified that nobody is
>         using your wifi for any nefarious purposes? ____

>         ____

>         Just some random thoughts…____

>         ____

>         Rusty____

>         ____

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>         *Sent:* Wednesday, June 27, 2012 8:47 AM____

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>         *Subject:* Re: Strange Server Behavior____

>         ____

>         I only installed nfs because I started to use this server as a
>         media server, and I wanted my family to be able to add movies to
>         the movie folder on the server. Mediatomb then scans the folder
>         and makes the movies available on our nifty wifi enabled TV. ____

>         Would samba be a better choice? The other computers on the
>         network are mac, windows, ubuntu. However, the windoes user has
>         a low probability of adding any movies by herself....;) (no
>         gender bashing here.....I live with four wonderful women, and
>         one of them is a complete techo-phobe, and she is proud of
>         it.....but that helps keep me around, so all is good with the
>         world).

>         Mark ____

>         ____

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