[Xitami] Urgent- server crashes Xitami 2.5c2 on XP

Mon Feb 20 21:48:28 CET 2006

Just to see if it makes a difference I turned off 
all power saving related things on the server and 
will leave it at that for now.
I actually once asked a few friends, (just over 
45,000) in a forum to hit the living h*** out of 
the machine while streaming a little video clip on it.
That in it self did nothing to the xitami server 
but it did slow down the connections of course.

That's why I have a hard time understanding why 
the Xitami would react so adversely to log files building up.
Perhaps the power saving is an issue.

You on the other hand is running 98SE and we're 
on NT based O/S's with XP so there is a major 
difference in how TCP/IP is handled I would assume.

Your configuration is
>Configuration:
>Xitami 2.5c2 (virtual host) on P166 (Win98SE) w/ 
>256mb, Php 4.something, MySQL something,
>FD Daemon, Mercury Mail, AVGFree, ZoneAlarm.

and as a comparison I am now testing out the following...

Xitami 2.5c2, (with 12 vhosts) on a P4 3.0 GHz 
Hyper threaded Intel 1 mb buffer, (no PHP or 
MySQL which saves me 12 Mb memory btw.)
I run 1 GB DRAM and have 2 x 250 GB disk space 
200 Gb dedicated for the vhosts and the rest for mail and dns

Norton Antivirus for now, ZoneAlarm for testing 
(I tried outpost too but it locked up the 
services totally and takes to much overhead)
MailEnable Std. Mail server and BIND for DNS serving.

At 20:35 20/02/2006, you wrote:
>Just a quick thought:
>
>     My regular Xitami server (p166 orphan) runs 
> flawlessly for months at a time, although I'm 
> not pushing the traffic you guys are.  However, 
> in order to add some disk space without having 
> everything go down for a while, I moved all 
> server stuff to an older computer (docked 
> Toshiba 205 Laptop) with Win98SE and test ran 
> it.  CRASHed overnight!  My working laptop is 
> also a 205 and since I upped it to Win98SE, I 
> crash regularly, usually with the network pc card installed but sometimes not.
>
>   The best I can figure it is that somewhere a 
> wakeup command doesn't process right and it 
> locks up.  Usually the computer has been 
> inactive for a long while (hour +) and has 
> screen and disks timed off.  Sometimes it wakes 
> up, sometime it doesn't.  Sometimes it went to 
> sleep with IE on screen, sometimes not.  None 
> of this seems Xitami related although an active 
> TCP/IP connection is suspicious.  Running test 
> right now without any software loaded.
>
>I thought display drivers were involved but 
>not.  Thought maybe a TCP/IP hangup (memory 
>leak?).  Just not everything wakes up after a 
>nap. ACPI maybe?  Power Management?
>
>Hope this is helpful,
>
>Charles
>
>Configuration:
>Xitami 2.5c2 (virtual host) on P166 (Win98SE) w/ 
>256mb, Php 4.something, MySQL something,
>FD Daemon, Mercury Mail, AVGFree, ZoneAlarm.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:ronackgen01 at bellsouth.net>Ron Ackerman
>To: <mailto:xitami at lists.xitami.org>'Xitami Users General Discussion'
>Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 11:28 AM
>Subject: RE: [Xitami] Urgent- server crashes Xitami 2.5c2 on XP
>
>Very possible, but I have the same problem. it 
>will crash after awhile and I don't know why. It 
>may run for days before it crashes. I'm not real 
>happy with the stablility. I'm running about 10 
>sites, I can site at the server all day doing 
>any number of things, leave it alone for a hour 
>and crash. Try to just restart it but it doesn't 
>like that very much so a reboot is in order. But 
>I can do a reboot then leave it for the weekend 
>come back on monday and find that it crashed. 
>Sure it might not be playing well with other 
>services but that's a problem. It needs to play well with others.
>
>Anyway enough of my venting.
>
>Have a nice day!!!
>
>
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>From: xitami-bounces at lists.xitami.org 
>[mailto:xitami-bounces at lists.xitami.org] On Behalf Of MRJ InfoTech Admin
>Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 1:33 PM
>To: Xitami Users General Discussion
>Subject: Re: [Xitami] Urgent- server crashes Xitami 2.5c2 on XP
>
>Now that could be a reason, but I have never had a problem with Norton before.
>In fact I have used this very same setup for 
>years and never experienced as many crashes as recently.
>
>I am leaning more towards the large numbe of 
>hits to different virtual hosts causing some overload and
>xitami not being able to a) rotate the logs fast 
>enough or b) not being able to route the traffic fast enough.
>
>
>
>At 18:25 20/02/2006, you wrote:
>>On 2/20/06, MRJ InfoTech Admin <admin at mrjdesign.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >  I turned off the FTP completely since I 
>> dont really use it for this current
>> > setup and I am looking to use an SFTP solution in a near future.
>> >  The FTP does not have any effect on this since It's all off.
>>
>>It is possible that some other software is causing Xitami to crash.  A
>>common culprit is anti-virus scanners.
>>
>>-Pieter Hintjens
>>
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