[Box-Admins] Re: server update

[Levente Uzonyi]

On Tue, 30 Aug 2016, Chris Muller wrote:

> After fixing a bug that let the new server grow to 2.5GB RAM, it is
> now stable at 500MB RAM.  I also discovered I can't apply patches live
> and save the image, because that means its saved with the RFB server
> running.

Is that a problem? Will you start the RFB server using the USR2 signal?

>
> This large bulk load uncovered a bug when using Magma in direct-mode
> since Eliot fixed the process-scheduling to not cycle through
> equal-level processes by default -- Magma's flush-to-disk process was
> at equal priority and so it wasn't getting flushed!  Spur really needs
> a way to cap its memory allocation like the old VM's had, so something
> like that would not cause problems for other processes on the server..
>
> Disk space is so tight, I'll have to log in to delete unneeded commit
> log files to avoid us running out.  Hopefully Rackspace can afford us
> a bigger disk.

There's still more than 16 GB of space left. Some servers have less than 
that. :)

Levente

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