James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > 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. >
It's spoadic, but I can't seem to get very far. The site setup "error log" does seem to be stuck at 10am. Don't suppose there is a full fs somewhere, is there? Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer
