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

[Casey Ransberger]

That's interesting. So you think the image is growing like that because it's getting flooded with requests? Guessing the growth in that scenario would be due to allocation of session objects?

I note that I do not see a robots.txt. Could the problem actually be a spider?

On Feb 26, 2011, at 10:11 AM, Janko Mivšek <janko.mivsek at eranova.si> wrote:

> 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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