New Server Hardware In Place!

[George Wallace]

No, we'd upgraded the old server to 4Gb because we were frequently running out. When I ordered the new server, I only ordered 2Gb in part because it was already expensive enough! Looks like I'm going to have to order that extra 2 Gb to see us through.

Mike

I've got a 4 Gb Memory Stick I can lend you for a couple of days...... ;D

 

[Edward Campbell]

I don't know about anyone else, but my situation, today, is back to what we had in May, see: http://forums.air-force.ca/forums/threads/60681/post-564633.html#msg564633  Things started to go pear shaped yesterday (the storm?) then stabilized in the evening and are, mostly, 'out' this morning.

Air Force.ca, Army.ca, Milnet.ca and Navy.ca open (or more often fail to open) at random, quite independent of 'box' and OS.

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

Right you are, it's the same problem, same solution. (One of your Internet connections was down.) Luckily not server related.

 

[Mike Baker]

Running fine for me  ;D

 

[armyvern]

Running fine for me  ;D

Me too!!!  ;D

 

[GAP]

Mine is running fine now, but like ER, couldn't connect worth a hill of beans last night and early this AM at home. Got to work, and everything is fine.... (cleared cache, cookies, etc....)

 

[George Wallace]

Funny what an hour can do.  At work this morning at 0830 -0900 the site went to crap and was very slow to load, and when it did it wasn't formated right.

Now it is running good to very good.  ;D

 

[GUNS]

Going great "guns" now.  ;D Vast improvement from my last log-on.

 

[Roy Harding]

I haven't cleared a damned thing - and the site runs fast one log on - and slow the next - and so on.

I've checked on other sites, and my speed is fine - I suspect there's something with Milnet.ca, not our individual computers.

That being said - I'm confident that Mr. Bobbitt is "on it", and it will be fixed soon - all new hardware expose unforeseen "glitches" only AFTER they've been put online.  (I know how grammatically incorrect that last sentence is - but I'll be damned if I can figure out how to fix it).


Roy

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

Update: The search index is (finally) built. That means the server should run faster, and searches should be more efficient and accurate.

 

[Yrys]

C l !  Thanks .

 

[Mike Baker]

Wow that is a lot better Mike, thanks a bunch  ;D

 

[NL_engineer]

Thanks Mike  ;D

 

[GAP]

Mike....the upgrade in equipment has been a beautiful improvement....thanks again.

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

More to come yet! The current system has 2Gb of RAM and we sometimes max that out. Kendrick (the same guy who brokered the deal on the server hardware) has gotten us a great deal on an extra 2Gb of RAM, so when it arrives in a couple of weeks we'll be even better off!

 

[Mike Baker]

More?! I like it Mike, thanks!

 

[freeze_time311]

Is this why I couldn't get on the site for a couple of days?

 

[Mike Baker]

Is this why I couldn't get on the site for a couple of days?

The server had to be rebooted to my knowledge.

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

...and it was actually the networking gear, not the server. Looks like we've just chased the problem one link further down the line, but I expect this one will be much easier to solve.

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

More good news: our additional RAM showed up today, and was installed just minutes ago. We've now jumped from 2Gb to 4Gb of memory. This should resolve a problem where occasionally we'd max out our memory and the system would run slowly.