[ADMIN] Future hosting of ILX (Part 8080)

lol

hey why does this keep crashing?

What do you mean? Last night I was doing a lot of work on it so it was up and down, but not around the time you posted.

hi stet i know you're new around here so i think it's be good to show you round and introduce you to a few of the 'regulars' just so you know what's what

any new news? any old news?

me. you.

Old news: hit some unexpected hiccups with the last switch on. New news: trying again tonight.

thank you, kind fellow.

would love to get a play by play when youre done, i only understand this stuff v much not really, but still would be interesting

Um, I know I volunteered to dig into ILX code in the past and didn't really do anything due to no specific direction and a lack of free time, but... I should be home a fair bit over the holidays and my day job is Java development so I might be able to help look at some of the code.

Refresh my memory, but doesn't the code currently only load threads to memory from the DB if they're actually accessed? Getting the memory load back down might be as easy as expiring out the cache more aggressively.

aren't you knackered though?

god i so don't want to relive that. but I need to document this stuff, so I will.

anyway, let's try this again folks http://ilxor.com/ILX/

how long is this for? (thanks stet, you're the best!)

i'm going to leave it running. if it's still going tomorrow, I'll redirect the front page back to it and that'll be us in business.

RIP CK Dexter

sandbox is slowing down; think a lot of people are hitting the search quite hard to find old threads

my gods, man. can it handle to ILXes at once?! what portals to the netherworld will this open??

answer: no.

actually it just ran out of memory with the volume of searching going on. I have raised the limits and now I'm going to leave it closed but running while it gathers its wits (and the poll bumps etc all happen)

IT LIVES

*jumps for joy*

thank u Mr Stet

well, not in just yet...

actually it just ran out of memory with the volume of searching going on.

sorry but i had a mark wahlberg pic that i NEEDED to post
ty for yr efforts. feel like planning to do this pre-holiday should set you up PERFECTLY to spend crucial celebratory time occupied w/this.

actually it just ran out of memory with the volume of searching going on.

I think I broke it thirty minutes ago looking for a Tears For Fears thread :(

So it's currently down?

It's running, but it's closed. So it's half back.

you shoulda been there it was really something

i saw a kjb post and i tried to start the metal thread poll nominations thread but i dont think it made it

OK, it made it through the night. Turning it back on to see what happens now.

Right, shifting to Plan B. Will split the sandbox and ILX on to different servers. Have cranked memory to the max on this instance for ILX now.

crank dat

better do somethin i'm not gonna put up with this for much longer tbh

srsly, is some stupid shit, this. apols.

:D

better do somethin i'm not gonna put up with this for much longer tbh

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lol
thx stet, like a family member slipping away this is just reminding me how much i love & rely on ILX so thanks for striving to provide it

Yeah, am just watching the memory tank steadily when ILX is up. There's something not right here. Going to need to investigate.

Have closed ILX for now

what setup did you decide to go with

not amazon looks like, no

did i break it stet?

My sense is that, when ILX is reopened with the intention of long term stability, that about 3 or 4 days' worth of the pre-crash threads ought to be displayed to anyone who arrives there. This should cut down considerably on the new arrivals bashing the search function.

would it work if it was open but if jimmy riddle was banned? if you open it real quick the first 51 in can help out

maybe we should just not do ilm could be a solution

haha
i didnt search anything. I just started 2 threads

and were they really worth it

Yeah this is still on Amazon. The setup is largely the same as before -- mysql, tomcat and apache -- but it's somehow consuming massive amounts of memory. It's not the actual caches, they're staying about 500mb (which is what I'd expect), but I am seeing free memory steadily dwindle to nowt.

There's two big differences from the old box -- one is that we're running on the OpenJRE instead of the Oracle one (we used to be on the Sun JRE), and the other is that the recreated Lucene search index is now a massive 4gb file (it was previously chunks built up over time).

I am first of all going to try disabling the search and see how it goes with that, and failing that will shift to the Oracle JRE.

It's hugely annoying that the next size of server up is 8gb of memory and $150/month but if that's what it takes so be it.

as a hilarious behavioural experiement can we try an 'essential ilx' where people only try to post things that are worthwhile and important

^ lol

^rite

well one was nominations thread for metal poll