[17:38 GMT] It seems crazed daemons have generated several gigabytes of log files. These have been deleted, so the ‘disk full’ errors are gone. Still working on the other issues though.
[23:23 GMT] The `servers` table has been repaired, and the online status system is operational again.
[23:17 GMT] Hmm. Seems the MySQL server got upset – “Table './avonline/servers' is marked as crashed and should be repaired.” That’d be why the online status system is “down or overloaded.”
[22:48 GMT] It seems that the cron daemon decided not to start at boot. This has screwed up all the stats. Gah!
This server is having serious issues. Random processes have taken to segfaulting, it thinks it’s been up for a negative amount of time, and it’s apparently executing, on average, 0.08 microqueries per second. Or roughly two per year.
Daemons refuse to start for no good reason too.
This can be traced back to someone deciding it would be a good idea to screw around with /dev. I have updated the kernel and uninstalled udev. The former made the machine bootable (into something other than into a single user system), and the latter took the load average down significantly. It’s still unreasonably high though.
I have no idea what’s wrong with it, and frankly I’m tired of messing with it. Anyone have any ideas?
I wish you best of luck with the problems kath.
Maybe you have a kernel problem. Are you sure you don’t have some random, baldy-written module installed?
Maybe your disk got a bit corrupted. You are using journaling, right?
Yes.
I don’t have much choice on the kernel – one of my two options (2.4) now refuses to boot unless I go in via the serial console, in which case I can get it to a single-user root prompt, ‘for maintence.’
The new kernel (2.6) is doing this. I suspect /dev is messed up. Rebooting is screwy too, although that seems fine now.
As it stands, load is higher than it should be, but at least it works…
I really don’t get it. .08 Microqueries per second, that would be A LOT more than 2 per year. Right?
P.S. At that rate, you would get 4.8 Microqueries per minute.
Two actual queries per year. The system counts in odd units when the numbers are too big/small.
Also, I didn’t work that out myself, I took both numbers from a system thinking it was created in 1901. Don’t trust it.