Today we saw a strange problem on our Solaris hosts that NFS mount VxFS filestore from our Veritas cluster. The users were seeing “Disc quota exceeded” messages, whilst the quota command wasn’t showing they’d hit their limit. After some digging on the cluster node we found the following error message: Sep 12 11:04:33 bes vxfs: [ID 702911 kern.warning] WARNING: msgcnt …
“Any idea WTF is going on?” is what I read on my phone as I stumbled out of bed this morning. It was from one of my colleagues who, for some reason I can’t understand, seems to like getting in to work at a ridiculous hour in the morning. Still half asleep I plodded through to my desk and sat …
I’ve done a bit of work on my FreeBSD ports lately. Firstly, after building my new server, I got round to upgrading from SlimServer to SqueezeCenter. This also meant sorting out ports for all the plugins I use. This didn’t take too long, and you can find them all over here. So far I’m liking SqueezeCenter, and I’d highly recommend …
A few weeks back I started having problems with my file server at home. This machine is fairly important to us; it holds all our photos, music and other files. For years I’ve been bodging it together with various old parts scavenged from other machines and some new parts when needed. But, once again, it’d started to break. Disks were …
It took me a while to figure this code out, and there seemed to be a lack of complete examples on the web to do exactly this, so I thought I’d document it. I needed to connect to an LDAP server using a Kerberos principal for authentication from within a Perl script. This meant that it needed to do it …
It’s been nearly 2 years since I intially set up my IPv6 connectivity, and back then I had some problems with the BT Exact IPv6 tunnel broker. Now it seems that without much notice the service has been taken down permanently, so I’ve just spent quite a few hours moving over to a new provider – SixXS. My initial impression …
Recently I changed my wife’s email address and user ID on eBay. It was pretty painless using their web interface… at least, that’s what I thought. The problems came a couple of weeks later when she was still receiving solicited promotional material to her old email address. I figured it wouldn’t be that hard to find out why, so I …
I started working on CSProjects quite a few months ago. Problems started early on. I began by bringing our software up-to-date. This included Apache, Python, Subversion, Trac and mod_python. It took some time, but I didn’t experience any problems… until I tried to run them. Seemingly at random, but quite frequently, the Apache children would get a Bus Error. I …
So my current hosted server is getting a bit old. It’s not got enough RAM, and the disk in it is failing (yes, I did have RAID, more on that later). So it’s about time to get a replacement in. The guys over at Netrino have just installed a new machine for me. I say new, but it’s not a …
Back in May I wrote about the performance problems we were having with our new NFS based user filestore. It’s been a while since then, and the problems have continued. We have noticed that it appears to be load related – not just the network, but also the machine. This suggests that our theories about IPsec causing the slow down …