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Our intermittent server problems continue (see this thread on the forum site for more info), including this morning when we were offline from 4:00am - 8:00am Eastern time. The crash seems to be related to something that happens around the time of the cron scripts, so tonight we're running those scripts at 10:00pm Eastern (7:00pm Pacific). So if we're offline later tonight, at least now you'll know why ... we figure it will be easier to see what's going wrong if we're actually awake to watch it!

Sorry for the troubles, but we're working to resolve them as quickly as we can (it's a subtle problem; we welcome your thoughts in the forum thread if you have knowledge to share...).

-rob.
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Server crashing at night.
Authored by: Lore on Jan 29, '03 12:12:53AM

I had exactly the same thing happen to my 10.2.1 server. Turned out to be one of the ram moduals.



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Does the box panic?
Authored by: sardu_mac on Jan 29, '03 08:15:16AM
Is the machine dying/panicing or are the httpd processeses just dying?


PS. Check out your Server: header...

Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_fastcgi/2.2.10 mod_jk/1.2.0 mod_perl/1.24_01 PHP/4.3.0 FrontPage/5.0.2 mod_ssl/2.8.12 OpenSSL/0.9.6b
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.0

Maybe Apache just needs another 10 or 20 big modules. Or at least a third SSL plugin :-)

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Does the box panic?
Authored by: robg on Jan 29, '03 09:08:19AM

No panic, just dies ... we may have identified the culprit, but a bit more testing is in order (so far so good on the first two tests, though).

-rob.



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Does the box panic?
Authored by: jwigdahl on Jan 29, '03 12:15:17PM

So what happened last night? Forum thread hasn't been updated either.



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updated now...
Authored by: robg on Jan 29, '03 12:27:59PM

Just added a blurb on what happened.

-rob.



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