[Box-Admins] squeaksource.com is down (EOM)

[Tobias Pape]

On 17.02.2017, at 02:15, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 07:22:22PM -0500, David T. Lewis wrote:
>> Thanks Tobias,
>> 
>> There is definitely something wrong with the image. It is growing in
>> memory and currently using a lot of CPU. I will attempt an off-line
>> fix, but brief outages are possible over the next hour or two.
>> 
>> The image normally saves itself every hour, and it looks like this last
>> happened successfully three days ago:
>> 
>> squeaksourcecom at dan:~/SqueakSource$ ls -lt squeaksource.6.*
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 squeaksourcecom www-data  16317608 Feb 16 14:13 squeaksource.6.changes
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 squeaksourcecom www-data 814463464 Feb 14 08:33 squeaksource.6.image
>> 
>> That means that today's restart would have begun with the Feb 14 copy of
>> the image, so there may be some data loss related to this (I'll check it
>> later).
>> 
> 
> 
> I fixed the image off line and restarted it. Memory and CPU are back to normal.
> Notes added to dan.box.squeak.org:~squeaksourcecom/README:
> 
> 
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> Fri Feb 17 00:55:29 UTC 2017 dtl
> Now running squeaksource.7.image from the run script. There is some sort of problem
> that is occasionally running the image out of memory. It appears to be an error
> handler in Seaside that tries to send an email via smtp to mail.squeak.org, but is
> unable to connect to smtp for some reason. The memory usage is all related to that
> single process. Although the image runs out of memory on this server, I am able
> to download and run it locally on another machine, terminate the process, and save
> the image for upload back to dan.box.squeak.org.
> 
> The download-and-fix procedure is needed because of a separate and unrelated issue.
> The VNC server in image is not working when running on dan.box.squeak.org. I am
> not sure, but this may be related to name server lookup of localhost on current
> Linux distros, which is a bug that was fixed in less ancient Squeak images. It is
> probably time to update the image a bit, at least to Squeak 4.6. Note, we should
> move to 64-bit Spur but I would prefer to wait for source.squeak.org to do that
> first.
> 
> Summary - healthy for now, but we need to check about once a week or so to make
> sure the memory size (size of squeaksource.7.image on disk) is not getting out
> of hand.
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Hi Dave, thanks for taking onto this :)

> 
> Dave