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Re: Server Blog

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Not you isp. It takes a long time to load for me too.

Some days....bam! ! ! It's there !!
other days zzzzzz

I
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Re: Server Blog

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It was painfully slow this morning. Restarting MySQL didn't help, which has been the usual fix in the past. I tried to restart the Apache service, and the service hung, so that was it. Rebooted the entire box, and now it's speedy again.

I think I tried to automate restarting Apache before and was unsuccessful at a 100% reliable restart. Maybe I'll look at that again after work today.
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Al S.

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Re: Server Blog

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Indeed it is speedy

Thanks again Al

Pretty early start for you. 0430 on a Sunday morning.
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Re: Server Blog

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These days, I'm up at 3:40am five days a week, and Sunday is one of them.
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Al S.

1982 Maxima diesel wagon, 2nd & 4th owner, 165k miles, rusty & burgundy/grey. Purchased 1996, SOLD 16Feb10
1983 Maxima diesel wagon, 199k miles, rusty, light yellow/light brown. SOLD 14Jul07
1981 720 SD22 (scrapped 04Sep07)
1983 Sentra CD17, 255k, bought 06Jul08, gave it away 22Jun10.
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Re: Server Blog

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It is very fast now, came right up without any waiting, thankyou AL!!!!
I know the voices are not real,
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Re: Server Blog

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I've implemented a kill/restart process for the web server (httpd) that will kill off the service at 0001 (a minute after midnight) every night, and restart it. The database (mysqld) has been set up this way for a couple of years, at 0002 daily. Let's see if restarting httpd every night helps with the occasional slow page loads we've seen.
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Al S.

1982 Maxima diesel wagon, 2nd & 4th owner, 165k miles, rusty & burgundy/grey. Purchased 1996, SOLD 16Feb10
1983 Maxima diesel wagon, 199k miles, rusty, light yellow/light brown. SOLD 14Jul07
1981 720 SD22 (scrapped 04Sep07)
1983 Sentra CD17, 255k, bought 06Jul08, gave it away 22Jun10.
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Re: Server Blog

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Fast this morning at 0620 to log on AL.

Navigating around once inside seemed to take a bit of time. Switching from one topic to the other takes a while to open.

Not sure if its site issue or ISP issue at my end.

Just for an FYI
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Re: Server Blog

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Inadequate testing: the script to kill httpd would run from a CLI but not from cron -- fixed (I hope).
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Al S.

1982 Maxima diesel wagon, 2nd & 4th owner, 165k miles, rusty & burgundy/grey. Purchased 1996, SOLD 16Feb10
1983 Maxima diesel wagon, 199k miles, rusty, light yellow/light brown. SOLD 14Jul07
1981 720 SD22 (scrapped 04Sep07)
1983 Sentra CD17, 255k, bought 06Jul08, gave it away 22Jun10.
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Re: Server Blog

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Not sure of what you refer to above but I know it's nice and speedy to log on and navigate around this morning at 0750
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Re: Server Blog

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plenzen wrote:Navigating around once inside seemed to take a bit of time. Switching from one topic to the other takes a while to open.
I haven't been able to reproduce that here. I've tried several times over several days.

If you find this happening again, would you PM me with links to a representative topic -- one that's slow to load?
Regards,
Al S.

1982 Maxima diesel wagon, 2nd & 4th owner, 165k miles, rusty & burgundy/grey. Purchased 1996, SOLD 16Feb10
1983 Maxima diesel wagon, 199k miles, rusty, light yellow/light brown. SOLD 14Jul07
1981 720 SD22 (scrapped 04Sep07)
1983 Sentra CD17, 255k, bought 06Jul08, gave it away 22Jun10.
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Re: Server Blog

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It's a lot better now, when before it took 5 minutes to load a page, it now takes 2 seconds, it's great!
Thankyou very much Al!!!
I know the voices are not real,
but they have some really good ideas.
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Failed reboot 05Dec2014

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On 05Dec, 2014 the server failed to complete a maintenance reboot, ten minutes before I had to leave to catch a flight out of the country.

It failed in a non-intuitive way and required a bit of research and consultation to determine the best course of repair, and I accomplished those while away. I was able to repair the problem (corrupt OS2.INI or corrupt OS2SYS.INI) by using backup copies.

The forum's data was never in danger.
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Al S.

1982 Maxima diesel wagon, 2nd & 4th owner, 165k miles, rusty & burgundy/grey. Purchased 1996, SOLD 16Feb10
1983 Maxima diesel wagon, 199k miles, rusty, light yellow/light brown. SOLD 14Jul07
1981 720 SD22 (scrapped 04Sep07)
1983 Sentra CD17, 255k, bought 06Jul08, gave it away 22Jun10.
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Re: Server Blog

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Thanks for fixing and getting us going again Al
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Re: Server Blog

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Thankyou Al :D
I know the voices are not real,
but they have some really good ideas.
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Re: Server Blog

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It's back to normal again Al, thankyou again. :)
I know the voices are not real,
but they have some really good ideas.
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