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2001 Site History

  • April 19-27, 2001 - The main servers are up and down, reconfigured and reloaded, then our telephone line is put out of service for three days by Time-Warner's trenching.
  • April 18, 2001 - University of North Carolina reported "our performance degraded continually
    until we came again to a complete halt this morning at 7ish EDT. after a reboot and an investigation, we're back up and up much more quickly thanks to the changes jonathan made yesterday. we're still looking at the problem which seems to be load related. and we have moved red hat 7.1 to a different server." Well, that's why you couldn't get to our site. I could understand that message, but then this arrived:
    "we were running red hat 7 with a VA 2.2.18 kernel that allows ext3 file
    systems on divahouse the www.ibiblio.org machine which is also the major
    disk farm for the complex. all this on an ibm netfinity with mucho memory.

    this weekend when a very desirable distribution was released (red hat
    7.1), we saw our outbound traffic get very high (normal) but we also saw
    the server crawling to a halt followed by a lockup.

    the wonderful journaling for ext3 was not working right so late yesterday
    after reinstalling the root partition completely and reinstalling the
    kernel, jem also turned off ext3 and went back to ext2.

    last night the outbound traffic climbed again and the slowdown began
    again. by 7 edt this morning we took a kernel panic. a reboot kept us up
    for about another hour and a half. then we got another kernel panic.

    dls has nuked the red hat 7.1 release. he is now recapturing it on jungle
    so it will be on its own server and so not hurting others. i also asked
    hte campus networking folks to look at enabling a governor on the machine
    so's we's be back down at about 75Mbs.

    jem and jreuning are looking at kernel alternatives at the moment (red hat
    2.2.19 and va 2.2.18.va2.1).

    more news as it happens. right now we look pretty good (fingers crossed
    for good luck)"
    Did you get all that? I didn't. And then: "the unc campus network was down for a couple of hours today between noon
    and 2:30 edt (us)."

  • March 27, 2001 - We post our first Dreamweaver site - The Still Side of Garner High.
  • March 25, 2001 - University of North Carolina server was down, taking our sites off the Internet.
  • March 24, 2001 - University of North Carolina switches its servers, reporting its NFS, HTTP, and FTP services are back - 100% Linux. 861 GB of HD space. - Started our own move to Dreamweaver and planning the divorce from FrontPage.
  • March 23, 2001 - Spent a week trying to discover why FrontPage starts showing file names in upper case, while Windows 98 sees them in lower case. Then by the time they get to the server, they are upper case and the links are broken.
  • Ides of March 2001 - Finally get my twin 60 GB drives running with all software loaded, but Gateway 933 is still failing to pass the Norton memory test. This started before Christmas and involved several hundred hours of loading, reformatting, and reloading trying to get the software and hardware running. Although a Gateway tech called me at work about three weeks ago, he has never answered the phone or returned my calls while I've been at home, where the computer is located.
  • January 2001 - UNC is now running a couple of terabytes on the server and is moving to Linux.
  • January 2001 - Added 256 Mb memory to 128 Mb in Gateway 933. Discover that anything over 256 total in the computer forces a 1 Mb loss of memory and a memory error report on Norton's memory test. Gateway explains that this is normal when using Intel's motherboard and controller. Intel also states their parts can lead to memory failure and data errors and explain that this is normal and expected. Something seems very ridiculous about this.