RE: Strange Server Behavior

2012-06-26 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Curious how your test turned out. You may also want to run an iostat to a file and see if that correlates to the slow responses. However, that 'bulging capacitor' thing others have mentioned sounds like a pretty convincing coincidence, as it were (I will say that USUALLY I'd agree

Re: OT Verizon Smart Phones

2012-06-26 Thread Josh Coffman
Have the the HTC Rezound; my first smart phone. Family has iPhone 4's. 4G/LTE is amazingly fast in areas with good 4G coverage - a serious advantage of Android has over iPhone. I switched to VZN from TMO several years ago due to coverage; am happy enough with them. Currently though, TMO also gets

Re: Strange Server Behavior

2012-06-26 Thread Dazed_75
One other thing occurs. I have a server which usually runs headless. I occasionally see the server appear to lock up for a few minutes. It is also running Apache. I have yet to put any web content on it and it is only accessible from the LAN. NTL, I finally tracked it down to an Apache

OT: Eblin Moglen and Asimov's 1st Law of Robotics

2012-06-26 Thread Dazed_75
Interesting point of view: http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/06/26/eben-moglen-time-to-apply-the-first-law-of-robotics-to-our-smartphones/ I've actually been wondering the same thing though more in the direction of self-driving cars and UAVs, etc. Asimov was a real visionary. Of

Re: Strange Server Behavior

2012-06-26 Thread Mark Phillips
My ping test is not what I expected but still shows a problem. I setup the test to ping (64 bytes, ttl =64) the problem server every 10 seconds from my laptop. Both are plugged in, on the same subnet. The boxes are about 5 feet apart. Here are the results: 3434 packets transmitted, 3307

Re: Strange Server Behavior

2012-06-26 Thread Stephen
What about pings from the server? Also my paranoia about this would have me checking the arp tables to see if the ip address is getting mis-somethinged. Also see if uou can make a task that will wrife to a file once every qp sex and see if the server is falling asleep or if it is network related.