Absolutely Horrible Response Times

[mister*spark]

Eric-

you are using drupal, and drupal just does not run well on the VT cluster.
I lost a customer who was seeing similar speed issues even with low traffic. Drupal makes a lot of calls to the database, and if its on another machine, it is just too dang slow. Drupal works much better on a dedicated box, in my experience.

good luck-

[fgomes]

I don't think it is just specific to Drupal.
It is not just windows systems; I have found problems with nix ones too. Last night I setup a site and, inspite of setting the Multiviews, Directory index(for index.php), my site reports: Unable to determine the page link!

[Brangwyn]

That though may be a completely unrelated problem fgomes, sounds more like DNS to me or you didn't wait long enough for Apache to recyle after hitting apply, or it could just be the good old issue where Apache doesn't recycle to pick up the updated .conf for yout site.

[fgomes]

Originally Posted by Brangwyn

That though may be a completely unrelated problem fgomes, sounds more like DNS to me or you didn't wait long enough for Apache to recyle after hitting apply, or it could just be the good old issue where Apache doesn't recycle to pick up the updated .conf for yout site.

Brangwyn,
The nameservers haven't changed have they? Hope not. I don't think I received any mail informing of any nameserver changes for awhile now.

Well, now it does serve the index page - but from a different application: its parent domain. The sub domain, inspite of having its own dedicated IP, serves pages from its parent domain.

I think the file system is corrupted - cross linked or something. The reason for believing so is that I tried to take a back up of all the domains (3) from unix14, and my ftp client popped up a screen to overwrite. I noticed that it was writing different domain's files into another one.

[Brangwyn]

No the nameservers haven't changed, but you said you had just set up the site, so a new site would have DNS propagation to take place, dedicated IP's are only for SSL use only too. Sounds like maybe you have some wierd symlink issue but hard to say without seeing it, have you submitted a ticket about it?

[fgomes]

Originally Posted by Brangwyn

No the nameservers haven't changed, but you said you had just set up the site, so a new site would have DNS propagation to take place, dedicated IP's are only for SSL use only too. Sounds like maybe you have some wierd symlink issue but hard to say without seeing it, have you submitted a ticket about it?

It was a sub domain (newsite.mydomain.com). If I tried newsite.mydomain.com/index.php it worked, but when I tried newsite.mydomain.com instead of serving the index.php I got the error message. It worked the first couple of times. No I did not submit a ticket. I will now.

[Clayton]

Originally Posted by Brangwyn

Thanks Clayton.

Something I just struck on my own boxes too, if you're running W2K3 SP2 then you'll want to get hotfix KB934903 it's an on session_end bug which can potentially cause some heavy memory usage on the box basically session_end never fires so all session variables stay in memory.

If you need it just email me and I'll send you a copy of the hotfix.

Can you mail that to me? I will pass it onto the senior admins to take a look at.

clayton@vortechhosting.com is my e-mail. Thanks Brangwyn.

[ericfoy]

Thanks, all, for your response and your willingness to give me some feedback that is hard to get any other way.

Mr. Spark: yes, I have been conscious of the fact that drupal is rather DB-intensive, and I've considered the possibility of exactly what you have stated. thanks for the confirming insight. I'll try enabling drupal's cache system. Maybe that will help...

-Eric

[ixie02]

I have customers complaining that they cannot connect with there sites over the past two days. I have tried pinging the sites and it just times out. These site are on unix18. These are simple sites with no database.

[Brangwyn]

I'm wondering if this isn't the reason many of the unix boxes seem to be sluggish the last week or two

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente...sifying.h tml

[ixie02]

Originally Posted by Brangwyn

I'm wondering if this isn't the reason many of the unix boxes seem to be sluggish the last week or two

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente...sifying.h tml

Would this apply to FreeBSD?

[mister*spark]

Intriguing article. I have a site on unix8 that is sporadically unresponsive. It is only for a few minutes at a time.
has anyone submitted a ticket on this?

[Brangwyn]

Originally Posted by ixie02

Would this apply to FreeBSD?

I would presume so, the target appears to be Apache rather than the OS but I've not found any solid articles describing exactly what the attack is *shrug*

[admin]

Well shits about to change I have heard you guys have missed me here on the forums but I have not forgot what got vortech where it is now, support is going to be improved 110% if things work out monday. We also have some new things coming for you as well as well as upgrades and new options even webmail. We like stable products and tested fully even if the one we have has a small issue an untested version can or could always have a worse affect then good so this what vortech was built around and works very well I think. This is off topic for this post I am sure but just want to let you guys know we are make some changes.

[jmbeach]

well, if it isn't the wizard of OZ.