[support] development and production environments

[Victor Kane]

First of all, am I right in supposing that your test environment crashed on
your laptop as a single Drupal instance?

In other words, taken together the following:

1. Virtual server config
2. MySql string in settings.php   (is that mysql or mysqli?)
3. File system
4. dns configurations (simply an entry in /etc/hosts on your laptop?)

and installed anywhere, the server crashes?

Victor


On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:41 AM, cooper Quintin <cooperq at cooperq.com> wrote:

> Victor Kane wrote:
> > I'm willing to help practically any Indymedia journalist :)
> >
> > Let's take it a step at a time and solve this.
> >
> > 1. What do you mean it "crashes the server".
> What I mean by this is, about a minute or 2 after the first page request
> from the dev or testing branch, the server starts grinding to a halt.
> MySQL queries become very slow and the system load shoots up
> astronomically.  Apache crashes and the entire system becomes slow and
> then unresponsive, requiring a hard reset.  I will have to get back to
> you with the exact statistics after I have approval to run another
> test.  (I can't just go about crashing our live server! ;)
> >
> > 2. Describe how you set up the system in more detail, especially, how
> > is the original setup, describe it in some detail.
> I should note again that I am running all of these on one server (with
> different databases for each and a seperate webroot for each, also to
> ari: I have made sure that the settings.php files each have the correct
> url set as the base url, also we have a vanilla htaccess file with one
> exception noted below.)  so the operating environment is exactly the
> same for all 3, the only difference being that the test and development
> versions are checked out from the subversion repository and the live
> version is not, (it is still just the non version controlled file
> system.)   The original setup is drupal core 5.15 checked out from CVS.
> We have the memcached module installed and a few other modules (I can
> post them if you think it is important.)  The server has 3.5 Gigs of
> memory, and about 2 gigs are free during normal operation.  Additionally
> we are currently using about 10% of our root partition's hard drive
> space (40/400G).  We have about 8-9 established connections at any given
> time on port 80 (according to netstat -ntpa)
> Here again are the stats for the server: Server OS: CentOS 5 Drupal
> Version: 5.15 php 5.2.8 apache
> 2.2.3 mysql 5.0.45 memcached 1.2.5
>
> I suspected at first that it may have something to do with the way the
> server is configured so I tried running the test environment on my
> laptop (with an exact snapshot of the code and database) and my laptop
> crashed in the same spectacular manner as the server.
>
> >
> > Victor Kane
> > http://awebfactory.com.ar
> P.S. Here is the 1 line we have added to the .htaccess file:
>  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^secure\.adbusters.org\orders\shoes$ [NC]
>    RewriteRule ^(.*)$
>
> http://www.adbusters.org/category/culture_shop/ethical_alternatives/blackspot_shoes
> [L,R=301<http://www.adbusters.org/category/culture_shop/ethical_alternatives/blackspot_shoes%5BL,R=301>
> ]
>
> P.P.S  Whats the best way to get a list of all my installed modules and
> versions for you guys?
>
> --
> Cooper Quintin
> Freelance Programmer, Indymedia Journalist
> http://CooperQ.com
> (510) 827-5382
>
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