Archive for August, 2006

The server is alive…

Saturday, August 12th, 2006

Just a quick note to apologize for the sketchy availability of certain site functions, of late

Basically it seems there is some sort of memory leak in Perl and/or my scripts, so they where eating away at memory. I noticed this, but all inspections showed there was plenty of memory was available, so it’s been many head-scratching hours later that realised there might be some limits imposed outside of my virtual machine, so upon further investigation have found had passed the soft-limit and steadily working towards the hard-limit on something called privvmpages, so that CGI scripts where getting very little chance to run.

While haven’t sorted the root cause, now at least know how to check the current status can can restart the whole machine if getting close…

Hopefully soon will get my diploma in emergency server maintenance…