Loss of DIBB Fri 12 Jan

[Stu]

Hi,
As you may be aware we lost the DIBB server today for a period of time.
We are trying to trace the underlying cause, we know it's database related and due to way too many connections, but our system should be able to cope quite easily with the load.
We'll keep an eye on things and hopefully we can find whats causing the database to go into overdrive.

If it gets to the point where it happens again without any apparent cause we'll take the server offline for some upgrades.

[lausan]

Thanks now i know why i could not get on

[Jan]

Not whilst I was on - so it wasn't me LOL.

[Disney_Leigh]

Hi,
As you may be aware we lost the DIBB server today for a period of time.
We are trying to trace the underlying cause, we know it's database related and due to way too many connections, but our system should be able to cope quite easily with the load.
We'll keep an eye on things and hopefully we can find whats causing the database to go into overdrive.

If it gets to the point where it happens again without any apparent cause we'll take the server offline for some upgrades.


Ahhhh :omg: :omg: Server offline? :omg: :omg:
What am I going to do? :d: Only joking :pgig:

[CityWalk]

ah thats why its been quiet

[Bozza]

:not guilty:

[loadsapixiedust]

I'm saying nothing, I think I was posting just as it disappeared :omg:

[Andre]

I'm saying nothing, I think I was posting just as it disappeared :omg:

Me too. I'd just clicked the Submit button in fact. Perhaps it was us who broke it? :blush:

And to think, my job is to make sure that various Disney computer things actually work correctly, not to break stuff!

Andre

[lainey5565]

I logged in and it said there was only one person online.....ME!!! I was so alone for all of 2 seconds:grin:
Elaine

[Stu]

Just an update on this....

after some investigations it appears the problem was caused by search engines, specifically Yahoo Slurp Search Spiders. Yahoo search was indexing our site too aggressively sending upwards of 100 search spiders all ow which were reading and indexing pages many times a second. This ultimately sent the server load through the roof.

We have now reconfigured the site to control the Yahoo index speed which should hopefully solve the problem.

[Sue]

Of course you have Stu:confused2

Really helpful errrr thanks:d:

[Sean_and_Sue]

Are there more problems today?

Having a terrible time here with the Dibb, but everything else seems okay

[Stu]

no problems today

[Sean_and_Sue]

Thanks Stu, BBC and Google are very slow here now.
Think I better run some scans