[Eli L]

I am not too happy about this amount of downtime!

But heres what happened.

• I was sleeping
• User mathsx overloaded the server
• Server crashed/froze
• 4 hours later I work up to find the server had been down
• I submitted a support ticked to get the server manually rebooted.
• Server is up and running.
• I post this topic explaining what happened.

Total downtime was ~4 hours, 19 minutes.

[theimben]

Named and shamed. Glad it's back up

[vie_ascenseur]

Hey Eli L,

Thanks for the update

downtime didnt affect me much to be honest - just mean I was bored for a few hours!

Thanks again

Joe

[Eli L]

After im done transferring this batch of account im going to define some limits in PHP for a forced memory limit and maximum stack depth to try to prevent something like this from happening again.

[cpt-bbb]

how come no one at the datacenter manually rebooted it? why did they have to wait for you to tell them to? seems a little poor on their behalf

[nickey2009]

sorry on posting on old post but can you tell how did mathsx overloaded the server

[Eli L]

His script forked like a billion processes and the server ran out of memory and froze. I've been finding ways to protect the server ever sense.