[Box-Admins] source.squeak.org is down

Levente Uzonyi leves at elte.hu
Mon Jun 9 17:08:15 UTC 2014


I checked it last time, and apache ran out of child processes (200). If it 
happens again, we should check what leaks them.


Levente

On Mon, 9 Jun 2014, David T. Lewis wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 07:29:20AM -0400, David T. Lewis wrote:
>> The problem seems to be back. The symptoms that I see are:
>>
>> - http://source.squeak.org and http://bugs.squeak.org are not responding
>> - http://squeak.org is working normally
>> - http://source.squeak.org:9090 brings up the source.squeak.org page
>>
>> Processes are running normally on box2.squeak.org.
>>
>> The last time this happened, restarting apache2 two times seems to have
>> resolved the problem. I will try doing that now.
>>
>
> I have restarted apache a total of three times (sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart),
> and the problem remains.
>
> The last time this happened was one week ago, and at the time we noticed
> an rsync backup job eating a lot of system resource. That is not the case
> right now, but it's possible there is some issue associated with backup
> jobs (run from cron) that somehow affects the apache addressing.
>
> I will probably not be able to take any further action on this today. My
> suggestion is that someone (anyone) on box-admins restart the apache2
> service about an hour from now, and keep trying every hour until it decides
> to start working.
>
> Dave
>
>
>> On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 02:35:01PM +0200, Tobias Pape wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 02.06.2014, at 13:18, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> [?]
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks Tobias,
>>>>>
>>>>> I will be away with no easy access to box2 for the next day, so I
>>>>> don't want to touch anything that might cause a bigger problem that
>>>>> I can't fix. That said ... I don't think the runaway rnapshot process
>>>>> is the cause of the problem, although it might be a symptom of something
>>>>> else. I can connect to source.squeak.org on 9090 and it works fine, so
>>>>> the CPU usage is not directly causing a problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> I will try restarting apache (sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart) and see
>>>>> if it helps.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No, that did not fix it. www.squeak.org remains active, but source.squeak.org
>>>> and bugs.squeak.org are not available.
>>>>
>>>> As before, connecting to http://source.squeak.org:9090 brings up the web page
>>>> normally.
>>>
>>> It turns out that apache did not successfully restart.
>>> Why, remains a mystery. Yet I now have started it and
>>> the pages should be fine again.
>>>
>>> Best
>>> 	-Tobias
>>>
>>
>


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