On 4/29/25 22:53, Scott Baker wrote:
CPT Community:

Here is a quick update on some changes we've made to stabilize *cpantesters.org*. Preaction was able to get a handful of us SSH access to the CPT servers. The "outages" and latency we've all noticed lately have been related to Apache resource exhaustion on the CPT4 web server that handles: www, api, reports, etc. We're still not 100% what is causing Apache to go unresponsive but we wanted to let everyone know we've made some improvements in the last week:

  * Increased Apache listeners to facilitate higher levels of traffic
  * Preaction reconfigured the Fastly CDN to remove a failed node
  * 8GB swapfile was added to give the box some extra resources
  * API.pm cleanup to fix a Mojolicious configuration artifact
  * Robust monitoring tools installed to watch health in real time

Next we will need to investigate the health of the DB server as well. If you have MySQL skills we could use your help diagnosing high load we're seeing. We have a rather large MySQL DB (~1.5TB) that contains about 20 years of CPT history. The DB server gets ~37 queries per second and has a sustained throughput of about 600Mb/s of read from the disks. From what I can tell the DB server is healthy and functional, but it's working /*hard*/.

If you have expertise in this field please reach out, or speak out at PTC so we can not only stabilize CPT but improve it and take it to the next level.

-- Scottchiefbaker


Thank you very much for your investigation. As I reported on #cpantesters-discuss yesterday, I am able to (i) upload CPANtesters reports from two different machines; (ii) view them 5 minutes later in https://metabase.cpantesters.org/tail/log.txt; (iii) then see them via fast-matrix (http://fast-matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=File-Fetch;perl=5.41.11;reports=1). So the situation currently DWIMs for me.

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