server went down

16 Feb 2001 16:29:39 -0800

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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> > > Bill Warner
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