Here is what an OSUOSL admin said in July when this happened last: > Looks like varnish died on the machine and I just kicked it. The site(s) > should be back online now. > > The sites have been in an unstable state for quite a while mostly > because neither we (OSL) nor Sun/Oracle had time to fix the performance > issues both of the sites entails. Couple that with the fact that the > machines they power those sites are very underpower considering the load > they take. It's gotten so bad that we've turned off notifications > because they just go off all the time. > > What really needs to happen is to have the sites completely > re-architected from the ground up with scaling in mind. At least one of > the sites is a stock Drupal 5.0 with a very hacked core. I know some > Sun/Oracle engineers had been working on fixing that into a Drupal 6 > module but I'm not sure where that left off. > > Anyways, If you would like some more help with how these sites can be > fixed moving forward, please let me know. But we are strectched thin for > resources. > > Thanks-
It is certainly a load issue. It might be a place to donate hardware and Drupal "foo" Regards, Dave On Aug 14, 2011, at 9:27 AM, Nóirín Plunkett wrote: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 4:14 PM, drew <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, 2011-08-14 at 09:07 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: >> >>> Or is this something that could be moved to apache-extras.org ? >> >> Hola Rob, >> >> We would get slammed with license issues, wouldn't we? >> - at least that is what I think. If we are on non-apache servers, then >> dishing up the broader license mix is acceptable is the take I get from >> what I've read so far, but on ASF hardware...nope. (*smile* - then again >> could be 100% mistaken there.) >> > > You've got the gist of it :-) > > But apache-extras is actually Google hardware, and exists explicitly > to support extensions and add-on pieces that, for whatever reason, > don't belong on Apache hardware. One of the potential reasons being, > of course, the license :-) > > http://community.apache.org/apache-extras/faq.html > > Noirin
