SkeyMedia » server http://skeymedia.com Blogging about Web Development and Website Management & Monetization Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:18:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Getting the Big “Oops” from a Server http://skeymedia.com/getting-the-big-oops-from-a-server/ http://skeymedia.com/getting-the-big-oops-from-a-server/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:15:35 +0000 Brian http://skeymedia.com/getting-the-big-oops-from-a-server/ I had some minor problems with xCache recently that ended up causing segfaults in my apache install. I had left my SSH putty session open last night and didn’t check my laptop before I trecked into the office this morning (yes, some of us bloggers still have 9-5′s). When I got to work, I noticed my server was down. I had to hard reboot it through the IPMI switch at my data center. I removed xCache from my php.ini and things have been solid since.

I came home from work and looked at my putty session and got a good laugh. “Oops” it tells me. haha. I had a good chuckle about it.

Oops

Message from syslogd@sv03 at Wed Nov 14 04:56:13 2007 …
sv03 kernel: Oops: 0002 [#1]

Message from syslogd@sv03 at Wed Nov 14 04:56:13 2007 …
sv03 kernel: SMP

Message from syslogd@sv03 at Wed Nov 14 04:56:13 2007 …
sv03 kernel: CPU: 1

Message from syslogd@sv03 at Wed Nov 14 04:56:13 2007 …
sv03 kernel: EIP is at kernel_thread_helper+0×7/0×10

Message from syslogd@sv03 at Wed Nov 14 04:56:13 2007 …
sv03 kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: c0434cd9 ecx: ffffffff edx: ffffffff

Message from syslogd@sv03 at Wed Nov 14 04:56:13 2007 …
sv03 kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: 00000000 ebp: 00000000 esp: e8121fe8

Message from syslogd@sv03 at Wed Nov 14 04:56:13 2007 …
sv03 kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068

Message from syslogd@sv03 at Wed Nov 14 04:56:13 2007 …
sv03 kernel: Process pdflush (pid: 8071, ti=e8121000 task=f67d3000 task.ti=e8121 000)

Message from syslogd@sv03 at Wed Nov 14 04:56:13 2007 …
sv03 kernel: Stack: c2858f60 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

Message from syslogd@sv03 at Wed Nov 14 04:56:14 2007 …
sv03 kernel: Call Trace:

]]> http://skeymedia.com/getting-the-big-oops-from-a-server/feed/ 1 xCache is More Trouble than it’s Worth http://skeymedia.com/xcache-is-more-trouble-than-it-s-worth/ http://skeymedia.com/xcache-is-more-trouble-than-it-s-worth/#comments Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:29:44 +0000 Brian http://skeymedia.com/xcache-is-more-trouble-than-it-s-worth/ Two servers and a just about every option variation later, I’ve officially given up on xCache.

The first round of problems involved caching config files and forms that needed to be updated all the time. I made exclude rules for those, and eventually it just got too long and became way too tedious to restart apache every time i changed a config file.

Second round of problems involved Apache segfaults. Happened to me twice in 12 hours and cost me a good amount of money as it happened at 5am the second time, and I didn’t log in to check my server until noon (because I was sleeping). 7 hours of downtime across multiple sites that my server hosts, and I’m out some cash because of it, and missed out on some traffic due to a digg’ed post that is currently about to break from upcoming into popular.

I’ve disabled xcache for now, and things seem to be stable again.

Running it, it saved me about .2 average load, and memory usage was about the same at 25% most the time.

I can’t say the site ran faster with it on either.

Maybe i’ll try it again in a later version, but in my opinion, version 1.2.1 is not all it’s cracked up to be.

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