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Server down?

Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 9:48 am
by J.F.
I haven't been able to get to either the front page at http://ps2dev.org/ or the svn repo since yesterday afternoon. What's weird is the forum works great - must be on a different server.

Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 10:37 am
by jockyw2001
ps2dev.org works fine for me

Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 10:58 am
by J.F.
Well, it's finally back up! Guess my post jogged someone into checking. :)

Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 3:26 am
by sm0k3ymcl3ud
now its back down again, i'm getting an HTTP "503 Service Temporarily Unavailable", a little investigation tells me the admin actually owns the server, so he/she's probably doing updates. I know how this is because I do the same thing, run a server from home.

Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 8:57 am
by Oobles
Yep. I do own the server. The main site is run on tomcat and the last month or so there's a problem which is causing it to stop working once in a while. I've put a cron job to check if the number of open sessions raises too high. If it does I reset tomcat. At some stage I'll work out what is causing the problem and fix it. Until then, sorry, there might be issues.

David.

Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 9:32 am
by J.F.
Well, we appreciate what you do. Keeping a server running 24/7 is a big and (usually) thankless task. People only notice when things aren't working and forget that the other 99.999% of the time it's worked perfectly. :)

So, thanks a bunch!

Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:30 pm
by sm0k3ymcl3ud
Yes most definitely, thank you, I know how hard it can be to maintain your own server, especially with respect to tomcat. Along with the privilege of root access comes great responsibility. I've never had any experience with tomcat but one of my good buddies says it's a very picky server. I never really got into java but I respect you for the fact that you are running a website in java, it's a tough language. What are your server/connection specs if you don't mind my asking?

Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 7:45 pm
by jockyw2001
Oobles wrote:The main site is run on tomcat and the last month or so there's a problem which is causing it to stop working once in a while. I've put a cron job to check if the number of open sessions raises too high. If it does I reset tomcat. At some stage I'll work out what is causing the problem and fix it.
Ah tomcat, that means nothing than trouble, it's very hungry for resources. I had similar trouble and had to double ram to 4GB, still it's locking up ocassionally.

Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:53 pm
by Wally
chankya wrote:I dont think that the server is down as it work fine for me too.
Check the date the last post was on -_-