[Box-Admins] RE: [FWD: ** PROBLEM Service Alert: squeak box2/Squeak website is CRITICAL **]

Janko Mivšek janko.mivsek at eranova.si
Sat Feb 26 18:11:21 UTC 2011


Ops, Casey, not Sean! Casey sorry for misnamed you :)

On 26. 02. 2011 19:08, Janko Mivšek wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> This fast growing image problem could be cause because of Dos attack, So
> Sean, go looking there if there you'll see some enormous amount of
> requests from our site and specially, are they coming from there same
> IP. Knowing that IP we can narrower the culpit closer.
> 
> Past two image crashes were caused by image not snapshoting every hour.
> We switched snapshoting off a time ago and forgot to switch on, ok, now
> it is on again.
> 
> Best regards
> Janko
> 
> On 26. 02. 2011 18:56, Ken Causey wrote:
>> Technically I could give you access but that image is owned and created
>> by the webteam and is their responsibility.  As such I suggest you
>> contact them and volunteer your assistance within that context.
>>
>> This may seem a little silly, but a lack of communication has been a
>> problem around here in the past.
>>
>> Ken
>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: Re: [Box-Admins] RE: [FWD: ** PROBLEM Service Alert: squeak
>>> box2/Squeak website is CRITICAL **]
>>> From: Casey Ransberger <casey.obrien.r at gmail.com>
>>> Date: Sat, February 26, 2011 11:43 am
>>> To: Squeak Hosting Support <box-admins at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>>>
>>>
>>> Drives me a little nuts that we don't know what's causing that. I'd like to get a copy of the image we're using and spend some time with it. Is this something I currently have access to? Not at my machine now, but I think I'm an updates user.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 26, 2011, at 2:46 AM, "Ken Causey" <ken at kencausey.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well it continued to grow quickly so I did indeed kill it.  I have
>>>> restarted it under vnc at port :1.  It appears the image was being saved
>>>> regularly and the site is back up and fine as far as I'm aware.
>>>>
>>>> Ken
>>>>
>>>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>>>> Subject: [FWD: ** PROBLEM Service Alert: squeak box2/Squeak website is
>>>>> CRITICAL **]
>>>>> From: "Ken Causey" <ken at kencausey.com>
>>>>> Date: Sat, February 26, 2011 4:39 am
>>>>> To: webteam at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I happen to be awake and online during this event, still on-going: 
>>>>> appearance of the process in top:
>>>>>
>>>>>  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND    
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 10856 website   25   0 1027m 753m 3324 R 94.2 79.5  82:28.27
>>>>> /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.11.3-2135/squeakvm -pathenc UTF-8 -encoding
>>>>> UTF-8 -plugins /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.11.3-2135 /home/website/w ...
>>>>>
>>>>> as you can see it is pegging the CPU and using a lot of memory (in no
>>>>> more than a minute it has gone from about 700MB to over 750MB).  I'll
>>>>> watch it for a few minutes but I am almost certainly going to have to
>>>>> kill it and restart.  I hope you have been saving....
>>>>>
>>>>> Ken
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>>>>> Subject: ** PROBLEM Service Alert: squeak box2/Squeak website is
>>>>>> CRITICAL **
>>>>>> From: nagios at mivsek.eranova.si (User for Nagios)
>>>>>> Date: Sat, February 26, 2011 4:24 am
>>>>>> To: ken at kencausey.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ***** Nagios *****
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Notification Type: PROBLEM
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Service: Squeak website
>>>>>> Host: squeak box2
>>>>>> Address: 85.10.195.197
>>>>>> State: CRITICAL
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Date/Time: Sat Feb 26 11:24:15 CET 2011
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Additional Info:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> CRITICAL - Socket timeout after 10 seconds
>>>>
>>
>>
> 

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