Actually, not. I was up for a lot of time fixing things. This is a no rest week for me.
> Michael, > > At least you got one day of rest this weekend. Thanks for all of your hard > work. > > Andy > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Dinowitz) > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Dinowitz)] > Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 11:59 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: List Status > > > What follows is just about a full account of what happened over the weekend > to > the HoF server. It is honest to the point of making me look bad but that's > just > me. :) > > Basically, the post server got jammed when I tried to update its settings on > Friday. To the task manager it was still on but to the server itself, it was > hung. This caused a TON of mail to back up. Normally, this should not be a > problem but either I made a mistake with the mail settings or the new post > server didn't like something and when I restarted it Sat. night, it started > to > work and then really hung. I mean hung to the point of stopping ALL net > communications to the box. It could be pinged, but no HTTP, FTP, VNC, etc. I > think this is due to it using CF as its engine and it trying to use an > unlimited > number of CF threads or the equivalent. (I'm still not sure why). The end > result > was every now and again, the server was good for about 3 requests before > getting > hung up. > I wrote some code to watch for these openings and used it to kill a bunch of > services and get back on the box. On the box there was 59,000+ messages in > the > out dir. I tried new settings and restarted. Same problem. Eventually around > 4am > Monday morning the box was totally unresponsive and I crashed for a few > hours. I > then called CFHosting (who provides the service) and asked them to kick the > box > while I was watching remotely and then wait there till I got it up right. > The > did so. > I replaced the new (beta) post server with the older released one and then > slowly moved the now 61,000+ messages into different directories by hand to > start getting them out (didn't want to lost anything). I had also turned off > all > receipt of mail by the box on Sunday so there were about 100+ messages still > waiting to be processed and turned into thousands more. > With the old post server in and more tweaks to the settings, I sat on the > box > all day watching mail get put into the queue, sent out, watching the logs, > etc. > Finally, around 5 or 6 the queue was cleaned and everything looked good. I > then > unlocked the receipt code and started to process backed up mail. Everything > seemed to work and after a bit of time watching that, I took a nap. > It all looks good now. > > Questions: > Why didn't I see what was up till Sat night? > From sundown Friday to an hour after sundown Saturday night is the Jewish > Sabbath and during that time I'm totally out of communication with anyone > electronically. The only way I could even answer the phone is if it was > literally life or death and I heard it on the answering machine. Loooooong > story > there but basically no phone, no computers, no 'work' that can take me away > from > God and family on the day of rest. > > Why did the post server fail? Is iMS faulty? > The post server in use was a beta given to me by Howie because I and others > noticed that some messages were being lost randomly (so it seems). This is > greater on high traffic days and less so on low. In order to make sure > everyone > got their messages and there were no problems, I put in the new server. > We're > looking into why this happened but on the whole, iMS is very solid. A side > note > in this is that I've heard similar complaints from other lists not using > iMS. > Complaints that mail messages are going missing which worries me greatly. Is > this a net thing? Is carnivore eating them? Is the problem still around with > the > new setting? All will be looked into. > > Am I blaming iMS, Howie or anyone/anything else for this event? > NO! The blame for this falls squarely on my shoulders. I put the beta post > server into use. I changed the settings. I didn't see a need to call > CFHosting > till Monday morning. All in all, I'm happy that Howie was able to get me the > beta post server and keep in contact with me while this was happening. I'm > happy > CFHosting was able to get what I needed done quickly and effectively. I'm > even > glad that people on the list were so concerned that they emailed me. Of > course, > in almost all cases I didn't see the email till the server was back up, > but.... > :) > > Can people email me directly for information or assistance? > Yes. A number of list members emailed asking what was up, is all was ok and > if > they could help. (I even got 2 donations through paypal.) During out times > of > this sort where the HoF website is down as well, you can ask me directly > about > the list status at my alternate address of [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a > rarely used backup that becomes my primary when the site is down (luckily > this > is very rare). > > Michael Dinowitz > Master of the House of Fusion > http://www.houseoffusion.com > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
