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General Matra related => General Discussion => Topic started by: macaroni on August 31, 2007, 01:35:51 pm

Title: Problems with the server?
Post by: macaroni on August 31, 2007, 01:35:51 pm

I'm finding it very hit and miss to access the website at the moment. Are there issues with the server?

Title: Re: Problems with the server?
Post by: Anders Dinsen on August 31, 2007, 02:21:05 pm

I know from Lennart that it has been suffering from lack of RAM for a long time. The other forum on the server has a good deal more activity than this one and the traffic there hits the server hard. A reconfiguration in June made it better, but hasn't fixed the problem at all. The server uses an odd type of RAM, so an upgrade involves the whole machine essentially - that's why they haven't done it yet.

- Anders

Title: Re: Problems with the server?
Post by: Lennart Sorth on September 06, 2007, 12:43:44 am

Quote from: Anders Dinsen on August 31, 2007, 02:21:05 pm

I know from Lennart that it has been suffering from lack of RAM for a long time.

Correct, but most of August we saw no aborted HTTPD servers - however the last 4 deays it happened 4 times. Problem is that as the websites grow larger, and in particular the databases grow, so does the related processes, so I have been forced to decrease the potential availability to some rather extreme values :(

The plan is to replace the server with new hardware, which will increase memory at least 10 fold - I can hardly wait. However, funding is still being sorted out, so it is unclear when this is going to happen.

/Lennart

Title: Re: Problems with the server?
Post by: Anders Dinsen on September 06, 2007, 07:45:02 am

Quote from: Lennart Sorth on September 06, 2007, 12:43:44 am

The plan is to replace the server with new hardware, which will increase memory at least 10 fold - I can hardly wait. However, funding is still being sorted out, so it is unclear when this is going to happen.

What can we do to help?

Title: Re: Problems with the server?
Post by: Lennart Sorth on September 06, 2007, 10:42:07 pm

Quote from: Anders Dinsen on September 06, 2007, 07:45:02 am

What can we do to help?

On the Club-Arnage forum they try to get funding contributions from the members, - not sure how far they have gotten, but considering the size of this forum, I don't expect we can do a lot - unless somebody have an idea ??

It costs about 1300 EUR/year to run the server (UPS power & unlimited bandwidth), and a new server will be say 2000 EUR.

All ideas (and contributions) are welcome.

/Lennart