Thanks Jimmy, I will try the gcutil resetinstance; looking at may GCE console
https://twitter.com/Metztli_IT/status/447226775483858944/photo/1/large I think I may switch DNS to CloudFlare for resilience on this instance. First time it happens (sigh) Thank you, Jeremy, as well. Best Professional Regards On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Jimmy Kaplowitz <[email protected]> wrote: > gcutil resetinstance is a reasonable idea. That is the equivalent of > pressing a hard reset button on the system. Alternatively, gcutil > deleteinstance and declining when asked about deleting the boot disk (or > using --nodelete_boot_pd) is the equivalent of sending an ACPI power down > signal (there is no equivalent signal for soft reboots) and freeing up the > CPU, unreserved IP addresses, RAM, etc. > > Neither of these deletes your disk - the disk is called persistent disk for > a reason. (The soon-to-vanish v1beta16 API offered scratch disks, but unless > you're using a gcutil from before early December, you would have had to > choose that API explicitly.) I've used both commands many times, including > on critical instances. > > If you do ever delete and re-add the instance, you can give gcutil > addinstance a flag like --disk=<old instance name>,boot instead of > specifying an image to boot off the existing disk. > > Also, if you apt-get upgraded without rebooting, the kernel is the same one > you first booted with. However unless something got killed via OOM, I can't > see how the old kernel's memory leak would be related. > > Yes, I meant #debian-cloud on IRC. (As Jeremy said, that's irc.debian.org, > also known as OFTC.) I'm Hydroxide there. > > Heading to sleep soon - it is indeed evening here and I'm on an unusually > early schedule this week. > > Good luck! > > - Jimmy > > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Jose R R <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Jimmy- >> >> Sorry I did not think anybody would reply as quickly on a Friday >> evening (Calironia). >> >> I had not experienced any issues since approximately 2 months ago that >> I started the instance with Salt/Libcloud as a proof of concept. >> Accordingly the image has been upgraded since then with apt-get >> update/dist-upgrade. >> >> gcutil getserialportoutput ouputs a long output and at the end I get >> copious output with tail related to the database, example: >> >> Mar 21 20:23:31 my-google-instance mysqld: 0 [0, 0, 0, 0] , >> Mar 21 20:23:43 my-google-instance mysqld: ibuf aio reads:140321 >> 20:23:43 [Warning] Aborted connection 58427 to db: 'my-sql-db' user: >> 'my-self' host: 'localhost' (Unknown error) >> Mar 21 20:25:49 my-google-instance mysqld: 140321 20:25:49 [Warning] >> Aborted connection 58378 to db: 'my-sql-db' user: 'my-self' host: >> 'localhost' (Unknown error) >> >> I was going to try gcutil resetinstance to reboot my instance but I am >> not sure if it will wipe out my served content. >> >> >> Best Professional regards. >> >> PS. #debian-cloud irc? >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Jimmy Kaplowitz <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Hi Jose, >> > >> > No, us-central1-b should be working. Does gcutil getserialportoutput >> > (or >> > the equivalent web console view) show anything informative? Might be an >> > OOM, >> > a kernel panic, really any of the possibilities for a normal system. >> > >> > I won't be awake many more hours, but I can briefly discuss in >> > #debian-cloud >> > if you'd like. >> > >> > One thing to note is that a memory leak in the virtio-scsi driver got >> > fixed >> > in the Debian 7.4 kernel, and is also absent from the backports kernel. >> > Either of these is recommended over older Debian kernels. >> > >> > We released our 7.4 images earlier this week, though of course apt-get >> > upgrade would have gotten you that sooner, and the backports image >> > already >> > offered a newer kernel partly for this reason. >> > >> > - Jimmy >> > >> > On Mar 21, 2014 7:10 PM, "Jose R R" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Niltze [hi!]- >> >> >> >> I am running a small Debian instance on GCE on us-central1-b (from >> >> another email account than this one) and was wondering if there it's >> >> undergoing maintenance; otherwise I think it is being being DoS DDoS >> >> since >> >> >> >> gcutil nor ssh are not able to connect; nor the web server displays >> >> anything (loading...) >> >> >> >> If anyone from GCE reads this I'd appreciate your input. >> >> >> >> >> >> Best Professional Regards. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Jose R R >> >> http://www.metztli-it.com >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> NEW Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1! 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