9622.net

Yeah, I realize I didn't need to take the site down to perform the upgrade, but I wanted to be double safe.

Shit, it didn't help.

what was it supposed to do?

It was supposed to stop the error messages that we've been getting when we comment.

ATTENTION TECHIE-TYPE CITIZENS AND VISITORS OF 9622.NET

I think I've known the problem all along. I've just been in denial. Basically, Dreamhost (who hosts 9622.net) runs a procwatch script, which kills processes that take too much of their server resources.

At least that's what they say. I can see where rebuilding the entire site might be too resource-intensive for them to handle, but adding a simple comment shouldn't come close to the limits the procwatch imposes.

When I asked them how procwatch would come into play on such a small scale, they sent me this:

______

First, it is commonly known that MT scripts are resource intensive; not just local problem on our servers. And although our script monitoring tool will begin killing processes once one of the default allowable levels for processes are reached, we are trying to figure out a way to reduce this as much as possible. This is not only beneficial to our MT users, but also to us since these scripts tend to cause an overall increase in server loads.

Next, just to give you a better idea of the resource use, typical http traffic and such processes are owned by the system user "dhapache". However, since CGI and Perl scripts are owned and thus run by the user, such processes are also owned by the user. So overall web traffic to static pages will not itself cause such processes to be killed but accessing pages with cgi scripts that go over specific usage limits will. The usage limits are determined by the following possible factors:

* user with more than 25 total processes (kill any that puts them over)
* user using more than 75% of processor with multiple processes (kill any that puts them over)
* user using more that 20% of memory with multiple processes (kill any that puts them over)
* one process using more than 50% of processor for longer than 3 minutes (kill process)
* one process using more than 10% of memory for longer than 3 minutes (kill process)

We are doing what we can to try and optimize are servers and database servers to help such customes, but we can only do so much with the amount of backend knowledge of MT scripts. I have been doing some personal research at http://www.movabletype.org and other resources to get some assistance on making our customers' scripts work a little more friendly/efficient with our system.

One thing that has come to our attention is something I found in the 'mt.cfg' file. It's the section on NFS on 'flock'/'fnctl' which I have copied and pasted below.

# By default Movable Type uses Perl's flock() function to lock your
# databases while reading and writing. On systems using NFS-mounted
# directories, however, Perl's flock() may fail, unless the perl executable
# has been built to use fnctl(2) instead of flock(2); and even then, it is
# not certain that the locking will truly work.
#
# Thus, if you have problems running Movable Type on systems using NFS, you
# can use this directive to use simpler file locking that will work over NFS.
#
# NOTE: do not adjust this setting unless you know what you are doing!
#
# UseNFSSafeLocking 1

Our shared hosting environment, if you are not already aware, is mounted over NFS to their specific file server. NFS mounted systems works really well for shared servers and allows for growth, movement and emergency scenarios. Although the authors of MT are not certain that the above will always work or even be helpful, it may be interesting to try. Since most MT users, go with default settings, my guess is that most customers have not uncommented the last line. If you wish to attempt this, I would first recommend backing up all your data beforehand just in case.
________

I un-commented that UseNFSSafeLocking line (even though I don't know what I'm doing) and it didn't change anything.

Does any of this make sense to anyone, or do you have any ideas?

testing

Why lupo? Why do you encourage people to beat me so???

closing tag

hold on. i'll fix it.

Italic-killa in da house!

guess i don't know what i'm doing

all better.

Listen, you lousy little thread. You're a total fuck-up and you know it. Just look what you did with all those italics. You've had this ass-kicking coming for a long time now.

You sicken me.

Um, are we in thread boot camp now or something?

With no knowledge of MT, nor of Perl, I still find it a bit weird that the server might be killing processes for 9622 as outlined above, especially considering that I've gotten more 500 errors when there seems to be very little traffic going on (as compared to say, the God thread or such)

/input

I usually get up early anyway, so I may as well participate in server calesthenics. (sp?)

*gives the thread her mightiest pimp slap*

I'd just like to say that I bought a VHS of Murnau's Nosferatu with a band called "Killing Process" doing music over it. It's really, really shitty. Killing Process, as a band, are really, really shitty.

And yet, despite all this shittiness, perhaps the shittiest thing of all is this thread, steaming like a fresh goat turd on the clean linen landscape of life.

I despise this thread with every fibre of my being and spurn it as I would spurn a rabid dog. I condemn it to wander the uncharted regions of the cyber desert, bereft and unloved, for all eternity.

I cast you out, foul thread!

Strangely enough I have very little trouble with this site. I have only gotten the error message once or twice at the most.

*shines halo*

Strangely enough I have very little trouble with this site. I have only gotten the error message once or twice at the most.

*shines halo*

Ironically I just got the error message for the third time. It figures.

Vengeance is mine! I double post thee, firer of bunnies!

My Father comes!

Just when I start to think that Kafkaesque might actually have a point, lo and behold, he does.

Does thinking make it so?

I cannot be held responsible for any of my acitons today. I have just opened my first box of Cheddar Jack Cheez-Its and they are so disgusting I will probably eat the whole box.

May the Lord have mercy upon my soul.

His Mighty Thinking does make It so, Witch of Stone! Witness how he hath bludgeoned B****fire with his Iron, generating Irony so delicious it beggeth for syrup! Observe how he bringeth news of crappy band soundtracks for the Edification of all, to his own detriment! Remember thee his immortal Haiku and occasional limerick! Gasp in wonderment at his two-dollah wordiness, and nary a Thesaur in sight!

Behold the Kaf! Bring thee forth the Cheezit Goodness, so that he may Sup until replete!

*kowtows*

*wets self*

can i run the vacuum now?

back away from the cheez-itz sir

Kaf, we are going to get nowhere with this scam until you stop wetting yourself in front of the supplicants, mmkay?

If it's so delicious why does it need syrup?

Just askin'.

I meant my thinking, but whatever. Semantics, that's all it comes down to in the end.

The great thing about Cheddar Jack Cheez-Its, besides their disgustingness, is the fact that even though they allegedly have 2 kinds of cheese action going down, they taste even less like real cheese, and more like high grade petrochemicals.

I have opted for the Pirate's Booty with White Aged Cheddar goodness.

The great thing about Cheddar Jack Cheez-Its, besides their disgustingness, is the fact that even though they allegedly have 2 kinds of cheese action going down, they taste even less like real cheese, and more like high grade petrochemicals.

2 kinds of cheez-like substance, 2 posts.

That's the way of the universe. All things are one.

I am unfamiliar with this booty of which you speak.

except posts. They're two.

Even in this twoness, oneness lurks. The outcome of this dilemma can only be threeness. There shall be no sixness.

Unless one multiplieth the twoness with the threeness. Then, sixness is likely.

Pirate Booty is highly addictive.

PIRATE'S BOOTY

Just one of the many snacks you can find at robscape.com (or at your local deli). Veggie Booty is also snackeriffic.

And no, I don't work for Rob. Although I may or may not have given him oral pleasure.

Jihad! I say Jihad against you all!

*cries*

If it's so delicious why does it need syrup?

Why, tradition, of course.

What? What's that? I almost thought I heard this thread say something.

No. I guess not.

I meant my thinking

Oh. Never mind then.

*eyes Kaf's wet pants, now covered in cheezit crumbs*

Bow thee to the Witch of Stone, thou peckers! Behold her toothsome Mightiness....

You realize, you miserable little thread, that I can kill you with the click of a mouse...

Just because a guy's got urine and Cheez-Its all over himself, that's no reason to abandon me!

Hug?

You know, I can take the urine.

I can even take the Cheez-its crumbs.

What I can't take, however, is the milk moustache.

That's not milk.

No hug for you, Kaufmannesque. And do it, Lupo, you fascist fop, I dare you!

... and thus must I abandon you, my friend. Settle for a high five?

That's not milk.

Is it a space station?

Is it Libby's? It's Libby's, right?

Or two construction workers getting in an argument?

How bout just a nod of the head, Fes?

*nods*

*nods*

*Nods almost imperceptibly*

*laughs*

Behold her toothsome Mightiness....

For some reason, fes old boy, I find the word 'toothsome' vaguely disturing.

Veggie Booty is also snackeriffic.

snackeriffic it may be, but do the words 'veggie' and 'booty' belong in the same sentence? I worry...

I have a huge sebaceous cyst on the back of my ear.

You're welcome.

These new machines run faster, make a lighter, puffier and superior product that taste great. Due to these changes in manufacturing there was a need to adjust the amount of cheese to the Pirate's Booty

Arrr, sounds a wee bit suspicious to me, Jim lad! Hoist the cheezy mizzen mast!

... but thanks to the cyst newsflash, I am no longer hungry anywho!

I have a huge sebaceous cyst on the back of my ear.

Are we invited to the squeezin'?

*barfs*

Good gracious!
It's sebaceous!

Fetch the scalpel
Fetch the lancet!
Drop your drawers
And do the dance-it!

Good gracious!
It's sebaceous!

Like a pimple
Like a mountain!
Apply the pressure,
see the fountain!

ahahahhahahahahah! I'm freaking out!

After the drainin', save me some o' the pus. I make a nice side income sellin' it to the Heinz people.

Pussy, pussy...

Splat! It vorks!

*thanks Lupo for his precious time*

do the words 'veggie' and 'booty' belong in the same sentence? I worry...

You haven't lived, my friend. You haven't lived.

I have a warning for any Sopranos fans out there: some unGODLY stuff happens in episode 3 (to be aired next week), and I am presently cutting the scene out of the video and will post it to the pile later (and perhaps elsewhere).

*seconds that thanking of the generous Mr. Lupo*

oh, adampsyche, you tempt my virtue!

*struggles with inner turmoil of urge to hear more, in much the same way that Dr. Melfi struggled with telling Tony about her assault in Season Three*

aaargh, I'm a Sopranos soap-opera type junkie!

"I...will post it to the pile later (and perhaps elsewhere)."

I'd vote for elsewhere, if only because I haven't the foggiest idea where the pile is.

Unless of course you mean the filepile pile, in which case I haven't got a membership, which is just as useful as not knowing where the pile is.

Have I made myself unclear?

Adam, I must know, or I'm gonna spew like that stripper last night.

Spoiler: Tony's gay.

Speaking of strippers, I went to see some honest-to-god burlesque last night and they were fabulous. It was the real deal, no pole wriggling, no bad 80's hair, real breasts with real pasties on them--it was great. They did choreographed numbers that almost all evoked another era: Busby Berkeley, the jazz era, fabulous fifties housewives playing "musical chairs" where whoever wins takes off another article of clothing....

My head is throbbing because I had too much beer, but those girls sure were adorable. They even had curves (Crash, I'm looking at you).

Posted by: readymade on September 23, 2002 05:38 PM

I've never even seen a whole episode, but I must know how adam has access to episodes which have not aired.

ok, you guys convinced me. i will post it to my server and provide a link here in ten minutes.

I love this site and all who dwell within it.

Yeah, Adrianna sure tossed her cookies on the FBI...I have episodes 1-4 from this season, and only one and two have aired.

Here it is. Right click, save as, it is a .wmv file.

Turn up the sound, too.

Nope, sorry, here it is.

Never have I seen The Sopranos.

Once I saw a bunch of castratis shaking a guy down for his milk money.

Does that count?

I have never been a big tv person, and certainly not sitcoms, but I couldn't help but get sucked into it. I can't get out!!!

Hey I saw this John Ritter movie once like that. I think you have to go through some daytime soap operas and talk shows and then maybe your kids can zap you out with the remote or something.

Hoo! Good times, good times.

9622: Shit, it didn't help.

You still haven't explained how you are able to do this adam. Maybe you've signed non-disclosure agreements or something...

kazaa...

kazaa

post, damn you!

kazaa!

I... I think he's trying to tell us something!

I think he's a deranged magician.

abracadabra...post!

Whew! For a minute there I thought he was going to say he got it from Kazaam.

Without a doubt the crown jewel in the O'Neal oeuvre.

pssst...post.

The worst job he ever had was retrieving lobsters from Jayne Mansfield's bum.

Nice. Thanks, Adam.

Ah, tizzie - Derek and Clive, the three funniest albums ever recorded!

I just ate some Hostess Apple Spice Cup Cakes. I'd never seen 'em before yesterday when I spied 'em in the gas station snak rak. I took em home and there's no apples in 'em and the spices are hard to identify, but they are de-fuggin'-licious. The are filled with that concoction known as "creme." I believe it's spelled that way because it contains no apparent dairy thus making it "not cream."

Twas yummy at any rate. I just can't let a good test-market snak food go unnapraised.

Carry on.

Dear Sir,

Is there anything you WON'T eat?

Yes, you say? But what if I fried it?

I thought so.

"Hey! I can see my house from here!"

Where'd I put that blender?

But what if I fried it?

Or, apparently, you could add "creme".

Yes, I lost this week. Marshall Faulk's neck held out just long enough for him to score a TD for my opponent. Hence, my presence. Snarl. Gripe, bitch, moan.

Ooh. That looks bad, Chef. Hope you've got your windows boarded up.

Yeah, that looks bad, but holy fucking shit!

I'd be for heading to high ground permanently.

CC, it may be time to visit your Monkey Brethren. This past weekend I heard an extended story about what would happen if a category 5 hurricane hit NO. Very scary.

Yep. My brother works for FEMA. He told me that there's a warehouse in Baton Rouge that's holding 100,000 body bags. Just waiting.

Waiting...waiting.

In global time, by the estimates of many, the Big Easy is not long for this world. John McPhee's The Control of Nature has a section about it.

Coldchef, seriously, keep an eye on that storm.

But for the rest of you, tropical storms/mild hurricanes aren't that big a deal if you are high enough in elevation. But don't stand under any trees.

Whoops! There goes La Place!

Seriously, I hope that storm diminishes over the next few days and isn't as bad as it looks from here. Take care.

Hey, what happened to my post from about two hours ago? It was there when I previewed.... *cries*
*sings*
*and I'll never have that recipe againnnnnn!*

shouldn't have left the cake out in the rain.

Cake baker, please hope me!

Ridin' the storm out, waitin' for the thaw out
On a full moon night in the Rocky Mountain winter...

or something like that...Loosiana style.

Commish, you're a sports guy. Shouldn't Pete be in the Hall of Fame??!?!

NO NO NO NO NO.

jpoulos's jihad against pete rose being in the hall of fame scores 4 Dianas and a Dando....

Nobody with hair like that should be in the Hall of Fame.

Lupo! You are cruel, cruel!
Pete should be there, dude.

Even Mr. Perfect, Tom Browning, agrees.

His hair, as Mr. Zevon says, was perfect.

You guys are just wrong.

All the asshole had to do was admit what he did and apologize for it, but he's far too arrogant for that. He thinks he's bigger than the game. He's not.

When they let the BlackSox in, they can let Pete in. They both did a huge disservice to the game. At least most of the BlackSox admitted it.

</rant>

sigh. you see what this evil evil thread hath wrought?

Wait... wait... I am chanelling.... a message from The Beyond.....

"... tell jpoulos that he's wrong; absolutely, Pete should be in the Hall of Fame, just like Bob Hayes should have been put in the NFL Hall of Fame before he died. If these things are really only about
"character", then they're worthless as memorials of athletic accomplishment."

Oh wise spirit of the Commish himself! Thank you for your speaking the truth!

be posted, dammit!

NO!!!!

This is getting bad. I just lost a whole (beautiful) comment because of this damn server.

there goes that cake in the rain again!
*weeps for Lupo even though he is cruel to Pete*

If these things are really only about
"character", then they're worthless as memorials of athletic accomplishment."

I completely agree with that, tizzie. Ty Cobb was the biggest asshole to ever play the game, but he belongs in the Hall. The Rose things isn't (entirely) about character, it's about:

(a) betting on baseball
(b) turning the sport into a circus by engaging in a public standoff with the commissioner (Giamatti, not yhbc, although i'd love to see commish go head to head with pete in extreme croquet)

here's an analogy:

Suppose I'm an incredible softare developer, working for mircosoft. I mean, I'm one of the best in the world. But I take my code and sell it to IBM for personal gain. Then I come out in all the newspapers and call Bill Gates an asshole. Microsoft can't then be expected to pay me all sorts of accolades just because my code was so good.

It was all in Rose's hands. He could be in the Hall right now, if he had just admitted what he had done. Instead, he chose to embarrass himself, the commissioner, the league and the sport as a whole. The damage he did, IMO, at least outweighs the (admittedly extraordinary) good he did with a bat.

The truth is that in Cincinnati, Pete is bigger than the game. 40,000 plus people show up for softball? C'mon! The Reds barely came close to that in any game this year.

The truth is that in Cincinnati, Pete is bigger than the game.

To be perfectly frank, I find that very sad.

Tune in next week when lupo and tizzie square off in a cage match to determine the best punt returner of all time.

Tune in next week when lupo and tizzie square off in a cage match to determine the best punt returner of all time.

It's a double-header.

grrrrrr

use the back button, then post again. You will probably get a double post but at least it WILL post.

*pats self on back*

damn, bunny. you've got advice on comment-posting and hurricane safety?

You should write a book. The Bunny's Almanac? :-)

(I kid.)

I think it's sad too, not because of the glory that is Pete, but because of the sad state of the game.
*sigh*

cage match? *perk*

About the posting problem, it seems to happen less when I use Netscape. Coincidence?!?

No, something is going crazy. I did my back button trick in the Tragedy thread, got 2 error messages and tried posting 4 times (twice without error messages) and nothing would post.

There's a ghost in the machine.

What they need is a Hall of Infamy for all the shitty people have been good athletes. No wait, that would fill up too quick.

There's a Zenyatta Mondatta!

Well, irony happens-in the other thread my post got eaten. So much for hubris.

But I HAVE been in a few hurricanes.

That's what they say about Witchstone - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic....

Now that's what I'm talkin' about! Synchronicity!

Listen, you people, Don't Stand So Close To Me, OK?

But I must, because I Can't Stand Losing You!

People of 9622, I shit you not: Roxanne is playing in the cubicle next to mine at this very moment!

It makes you think that perhaps there are spirits in the material world.

*knocks down all the damn candlesticks*

Hey mister, I want to know how you think you're going to pay for that! Yeah, guess who's going to be wrapped around MY finger!

The telephone is ringing.
Is that my mother on the phone?

Witchie, might I suggest Murder By Numbers?

*burns Sting in effigy*

eh. Sting is shite, but Outlandos d'Amour is a great record.

*watches effigy rise phoenix-like, but in lotus position*

*immolates self in reality*

Who is the little one? A pet perhaps?

Will she deserve my special attentions?

*Tries in vain to remember a single quote from "Brimstone and Treacle"...fails*

Sting is shite? I beg to differ.

Especially in the Don't Stand So Close To Me video. Ladies, are you with me? Total hottie.

OK and besides the shallow "he was hot" thing, I really love The Police and a lot of his solo stuff. I don't care if he was in the Jaguar commercial.

The soulless droning of standards in Leaving Las Vegas was also heinous, because they're so many good earlier versions of those songs.

damned heinous postlessness

In related news, I was relieved to hear that the R&B artist known as "Mario" has a released "Just a Friend 2002". Because, you know, I really didn't feel like the Biz Marke song got enough airplay.

Witchstone, woman, you speak the hottie truth. He is eye candy.

I had a huge Sting-crush about ten years ago, and went to many Police and subsequent concerts, including the tour with Branford Marsalis - which was good. I still would not kick the man out of bed for eating crackers, mind you, but my overwhelming lust has cooled.

Next!

... the thing is, Sting knows he's a hottie, and that just ruins it for me. Maybe I just dated too many egomaniacs in college. feh.

I can't talk about the Police without thinking of the drunk who lived next door to me back in my college daze. Every night, his prep school buddy would come over and they'd play their two favorite songs--"Born in the 50's" by the Police and Van Halen's "And the Cradle Will Rock!" over and over and over and over all night long. I'm still recovering.

BTW, have you seen Junior's grades?

Next!

*perk*

Maybe I just dated too many egomaniacs in college.

Whatnot, I told you stay away from David Copperfield, but would you listen?

Awwww, jpoulos, you sweetie-pie!

*still thinks Pete should be in the HOF*

I don't want to find Sting fire hot, but dammit, I do.

Hey! The Traveling Hall of Fame exhibit is in Los Angeles right now!

w00t!

Witchstone, you were right. I should have dated Doug instead. *sigh*

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