Joshua Penix wrote: > On Dec 19, 2007, at 1:22 PM, James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > >>> So, instead of just complaining ... what would I need to do to get into >>> a position to fix it? >>> >> Seems offline now, maybe someone's working on it? >> Oh-wait, it's back, but longish ping times. >> >> Ahhh, 'ping -n' works much better but still (too much) jumping around. >> >> Maybe that's a clue? > > > It's been sluggish for the last couple days due to heavy Plone > utilization. This is due to apparently increased traffic on our site > (spammers banging on it again?), and the limited amount of memory > assigned to the virtual machine where Plone is running... still the > original system image from the old server. > > We have tons of capacity on that server, but to utilize it requires > moving Plone to its own new virtual machine. I've gotten as far as > creating the virtual machine, but moving Plone there has not yet been > accomplished. That sits squarely on my plate, and has been there for a > couple months. I'm in the process of moving my entire rack of colo > servers to a larger alternate cabinet, and once sparKPLUG is in its new > home I will finish the move. > > From there, our local Plone and website maintainers (Jim, Neil, Judy, > others?) can take over. Perhaps this is an area where Christoph can > also be of assistance?
And Tracy. He's knows the most plone magic. Maybe he could give a plone administrators/product-makers seminar? In his spare time, of course <grin>. Can you see any evidence of what's causing the traffic? If it seems unsolvable without big effort, what should we do -- maybe just shut down port 80 until it can be fixed? It's nice our mail server is still working! Makes me wonder if future attention to mailserver failover might be worthwhile. I'm getting in to the ZopeMI port, but that took several minutes of hamster activity. If I can get anywhere, I'll see if there are any further clues within what's accessible to me. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer
