Somebody please help Morrus!

[War Golem]

I just read through the thread in Meta regarding the features being turned off on the boards, and the general frustration of the server being absurdly slow during the middle of the (american hemisphere) day.

Morrus sounds like he is out of ideas as to trying to figure out what is slowing down the server - isn't there anyone on these boards who is a Network Administrator or a System Analyst and could possibly help Morrus with this? Someone who knows their way around a server in the dark and could possible diagnose what's going on?

Somebody? Anybody?

I just figured with the vast array of talent and skills present on these boards, there must be a couple of us who could tackle this problem....

 

[War Golem]

This is a Bump.

Others can feel free to do the same until we flush the server experts out of their cold, dark, windowless rooms....

 

[Berandor]

I don't know anything about servers...

but I known how to *bump*

 

[der_kluge]

Gosh

Morrus would have to give us some specifics, I guess.

What kind of server is it? Is it dedicated to just this website? Does Morrus own it himself, or is it sitting in an ISP's office somewhere?

Is it a UNIX server? What kind is it? How much memory does it have? What is the hard drive configuration RAID? RAID5?
What kind of network cards are on it? How many?

All of these factors can contribute.

 

[Psionicist]

Re: Gosh

Morrus would have to give us some specifics, I guess.

What kind of server is it? Is it dedicated to just this website? Does Morrus own it himself, or is it sitting in an ISP's office somewhere?

Is it a UNIX server? What kind is it? How much memory does it have? What is the hard drive configuration RAID? RAID5?
What kind of network cards are on it? How many?

All of these factors can contribute.

I have heard of RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 0+1 (in fact, I will go raid on my next motherboard... this week I think). What the heck is RAID 5?

 

[enrious]

Striped set with parity.

Essentially you take at least three drives, spread parity information (used to recover if one of the drives dies) but you give up an amount of equal to one drive.

Example: 4x20gig drives would give you 3x20gig free space + 1x20gig amount of space devoted to the parity information. Note that one drive doesn't actually have all of the parity information, rather it is spread equally amongst the 4 drives.

 

[thatdarncat]

the OS is w2k server
as far as I can tell, the hard drive is not a raid at all
it's a dedicated server hosted by a company in the states.
access is through FTP and TSC.

that's about all I can tell you

 

[Abel Kane]

Raid 5 allows for "mirroring" of data across several drives so no one drive contains information all by itself. Basically then, parity information for data is writen to a seperate disk from the actual data disk. That way, if a drive fails, a replacement can be inserted and the data rebuilt from the parity information that exists across the other remaining drives. It requires a minimum of three drives to work.

David

 

[Baron Von StarBlade]

Re: Re: Gosh

I have heard of RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 0+1 (in fact, I will go raid on my next motherboard... this week I think). What the heck is RAID 5?

Check out this Link

http://www.acnc.com/04_01_05.html

BTW I've also got RAID 0+1 on my new PC they are becoming more popular now a days. . What Motherboard are you getting?

 

[War Golem]

Morrus,

Are you able to post to the boards some more of the specifics about the EN Boards vBulletin server?