Hi Chris - you're right I did ask! BTW a solution that means both we and our clients are completely unaware of any issues or service problems sounds pretty damn good to me and far from imperfect.
I'm sorry Rashid - but maybe the techniques that Chris used to keep our server up might help. Regards Jeffrey On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 08:11:38 -0500, Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet <[email protected]> wrote: > Jeffrey Pellin wrote: >> This might not be the same thing but we had a similar problem with lots >> of >> processes bringing down one of our BO v-servers. >> >> Our Aventurine box is with Chris over at Virtbiz and it appears that one >> of >> his excellent team nailed the problem, as we haven't had an issue for >> some >> time. I never thought to ask Chris what it was. >> >> If it's the same thing maybe he'll post. > > Hi Jeffrey, > Ah yes, this would be our old Albatros, right? :) I just had a quick > look back at the history on this one and it looks like it wasn't exactly > the same issue. On your box it was Apache instead of cced.init. What > would happen is that Apache would get hammered and then get very out of > sorts to the point that it begins to block network traffic for the > entire host (not just the VPS). Restarting Apache on the affected VPS > seems to cure the symptom. > > We tightened up some web security and that seemed to bring the number > incidents down significantly but not entirely. We also loaded in a > quick script to watch for network to fail and if it does, issue a > restart for Apache. It looks like that restart is happening about once > every 1.5 days or so. An imperfect solution, to be sure, but the > system continues to run. > > As a failsafe, we've also got the physical system monitored and if > network goes AWOL on it for more than 5 minutes the box gets > power-cycled by the PDU. The 5 minute window leaves time for things > like intentional reboots. > > I don't think the above will help Rashid with his issue, but since you > asked... I told. ;) _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list [email protected] http://www.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx
