# We'll that was a boring few hours **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [May 22, 2008, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/well-that-was-a-boring-few-hours/261044 "2008-05-22T16:23:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Templarian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/templarian/32/7152_2.png) [@Templarian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Templarian)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/well-that-was-a-boring-few-hours/261044/1 "2008-05-22T16:23:27Z")
Yep, my boss was gonna question why my productivity was so high for those first 4 hours work work this morning. [whisper]//edit, for those that sleep during our time over here the forums were down for 5-6hours.[/whisper] ---
**Author:** ![fasterthanlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecc23a/32.png) [@fasterthanlight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fasterthanlight)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 4:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/well-that-was-a-boring-few-hours/261044/2 "2008-05-22T16:31:33Z")
OMG OMG ITS BACK I NEED MY FIX UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH YEAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ---
**Author:** ![nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@nobody](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nobody)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/well-that-was-a-boring-few-hours/261044/3 "2008-05-22T17:56:36Z")
You are so awesome at apostrophes ---
**Author:** ![kdd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@kdd](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kdd)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 6:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/well-that-was-a-boring-few-hours/261044/4 "2008-05-22T18:08:56Z")
^ hehe. 😛 Yeah, I was like ■■■■, k-forum is down, can’t live without them… ---
**Author:** ![Loyx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e274bd/32.png) [@Loyx](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Loyx)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 7:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/well-that-was-a-boring-few-hours/261044/5 "2008-05-22T19:44:41Z")
Like the majorty… I noticed it. 5 or 6 hours are too many hours. What happened? ---
**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 7:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/well-that-was-a-boring-few-hours/261044/6 "2008-05-22T19:48:34Z")
The server was overloaded with traffic! It’s good that the LOLcat thread is what is driving a lot of new people :beam: [COLOR=gray](On a serious note, Apache shut itself down. I’ll make sure that in the future, these things are handled a bit more expeditiously :))[/COLOR] ---
**Author:** ![Seb\_Hughes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Seb\_Hughes](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Seb_Hughes)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/well-that-was-a-boring-few-hours/261044/7 "2008-05-22T19:50:55Z")
[QUOTE=kirupa;2329715]The server was overloaded with traffic! It’s good that the LOLcat thread is what is driving a lot of new people :beam: [COLOR=gray](On a serious note, Apache shut itself down. I’ll make sure that in the future, these things are handled a bit more expeditiously :))[/COLOR][/QUOTE] How come MT didn’t just restart the server for you? The person monitoring all the servers etc must have seen this coming. ---
**Author:** ![fasterthanlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecc23a/32.png) [@fasterthanlight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fasterthanlight)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 7:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/well-that-was-a-boring-few-hours/261044/8 "2008-05-22T19:52:57Z")
Apparently not ---
**Author:** ![Loyx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e274bd/32.png) [@Loyx](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Loyx)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 8:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/well-that-was-a-boring-few-hours/261044/9 "2008-05-22T20:09:39Z")
[quote=kirupa;2329715]The server was overloaded with traffic! It’s good that the LOLcat thread is what is driving a lot of new people :beam: [/quote] Kirupa, I work in a webhosting company… 5-6 hours down due to a post? bufff! It’s very weird… Is a DoS (Denial of service) ruled out? How is the apache error\_log? A lot of petitions in a minute during that 5-6 hours? ---
**Author:** ![fasterthanlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecc23a/32.png) [@fasterthanlight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fasterthanlight)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/well-that-was-a-boring-few-hours/261044/10 "2008-05-22T20:49:19Z")
[quote=motionman95;2329737] Glad your back up though :thumb:[/quote] [whisper]Thats what _she_ said[/whisper] ---
**Author:** ![grimdeath](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/grimdeath/32/7124_2.png) [@grimdeath](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/grimdeath)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/well-that-was-a-boring-few-hours/261044/11 "2008-05-22T20:52:05Z")
I was in denial I couldn’t believe it since there’s usually a heads up about down time I was like did someone hack my home :h: but since we had a videoshoot here at the office so I was a bit busy and didnt notice much. I seriously thought it was the internet here :lol: ---
**Author:** ![Seb\_Hughes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Seb\_Hughes](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Seb_Hughes)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 8:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/well-that-was-a-boring-few-hours/261044/12 "2008-05-22T20:59:41Z")
^A first I thought it was my Internet until faster came crying to me. ---
**Author:** ![fasterthanlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecc23a/32.png) [@fasterthanlight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fasterthanlight)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/well-that-was-a-boring-few-hours/261044/13 "2008-05-22T21:01:46Z")
yea, and once i figured out it wasn’t Seb’s fault, I blamed templarian, and then the problem got fixed. _shifty eyes_ ---
**Author:** ![Digitalosophy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/digitalosophy/32/1114_2.png) [@Digitalosophy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Digitalosophy)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 9:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/well-that-was-a-boring-few-hours/261044/14 "2008-05-22T21:13:38Z")
> [@Loyx;2329725](#): > > Kirupa, I work in a webhosting company… 5-6 hours down due to a post? bufff! It’s very weird… Is a DoS (Denial of service) ruled out? How is the apache error\_log? A lot of petitions in a minute during that 5-6 hours? Kirupa was joking. If you compare up time to down time for a site this big, I’d say MT does a fantastic job. ---
**Author:** ![DanontheMoon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/danonthemoon/32/7436_2.png) [@DanontheMoon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/DanontheMoon)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 10:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/well-that-was-a-boring-few-hours/261044/15 "2008-05-22T22:34:07Z")
I figured the site was down for maintenance. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Wheeler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@Jeff\_Wheeler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jeff_Wheeler)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 10:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/well-that-was-a-boring-few-hours/261044/16 "2008-05-22T22:47:00Z")
What OS does MT run? It needs something like [w]Service Management Facility[/w] (see last bullet in intro). 😛 ---
**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 1:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/well-that-was-a-boring-few-hours/261044/17 "2008-05-23T01:44:56Z")
> [@Loyx;2329725](#): > > Kirupa, I work in a webhosting company… 5-6 hours down due to a post? bufff! It’s very weird… Is a DoS (Denial of service) ruled out? How is the apache error\_log? A lot of petitions in a minute during that 5-6 hours? No, it wasn’t a DoS. The apache error log clearly shows my system resources going down slowly, and the cause was due to prefork.c values in the Apache configuration being really high. The forums account for only part of the site’s traffic. Majority of the traffic goes to the non-forum sections. ---
**Author:** ![kdd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@kdd](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kdd)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 2:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/well-that-was-a-boring-few-hours/261044/18 "2008-05-23T02:22:49Z")
Just curious, what’re those prefork.c values? ---
**Author:** ![sekasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 2:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/well-that-was-a-boring-few-hours/261044/19 "2008-05-23T02:55:50Z")
> [@Seb Hughes;2329716](#): > > How come MT didn’t just restart the server for you? The person monitoring all the servers etc must have seen this coming. The DV/Rage servers and above on MT don’t have a “person monitoring the server”. You’re supposed to do that yourself ; ) ---
**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 4:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/well-that-was-a-boring-few-hours/261044/20 "2008-05-23T04:05:29Z")
> [@kdd;2329854](#): > > Just curious, what’re those prefork.c values? The number of processes that run on the server. I had no idea until someone from MT explained it 🙂 [Next page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/well-that-was-a-boring-few-hours/261044.md?page=2)