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Master Server Outage
Greek2me:
The website (and forums) just was down a couple minutes ago. Did this happen during the other masterserver crashes? I guess all of Badspot's other website's went down too.
Kalphiter:
--- Quote from: Greek2me on October 20, 2010, 09:14:02 PM ---The website (and forums) just was down a couple minutes ago. Did this happen during the other masterserver crashes? I guess all of Badspot's other website's went down too.
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No, it's caused by high CPU usage for some reason.
And this happened once before, in which it crashed once and was fine from then on.
YorkTown95:
About time the Master server is back up.
Badspot:
--- Quote from: Kalphiter on October 20, 2010, 09:53:03 PM ---No, it's caused by high CPU usage for some reason.
And this happened once before, in which it crashed once and was fine from then on.
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I don't know what the problem is but it's not CPU usage. The server has like 8 cores and I've never seen it go over 10% usage. Most freezing on the forum is related to sql usage and the general crappiness of smf.
There are a large number of connections open on the server but I don't know what the normal numbers are like.
I randomly poked some numbers in the apache config and now it's working but that could easily be a coincidence considering it's been up and down all day.
Kalphiter:
--- Quote from: Badspot on October 20, 2010, 10:06:39 PM ---There are a large number of connections open on the server but I don't know what the normal numbers are like.
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Could you describe how many? Could you describe what Apache changes were made?
I would put a cap on 2,000 being too many but that's commonly found in long-living connections.
I assumed it was high CPU because this has happened before and it was the cause. This also explained why pings were perfect yet HTTP stuff was a mess.