More Fun Server Stuff (yawn)
Posting for my records mostly, but you might be interested...
The server's been running like a one-legged dispeptic sloth that's been dead for a month. It's been a source of much frustration - it vexed me mightily. So tonight I did one of my bi-weekly database backups, and checked around to make sure the files were all where they were supposed to be.
They weren't.
Not sure if this is the root cause of the server slowing down, but I discovered that the preferences file for the database was in the wrong directory. For some reason, it was changed, I don't know why. The database tries to find this prefs file in one of several known directories, for some reason it decided to switch the directory it was looking for.
Fortunately I have a backup of this prefs file, so I put it in the new directory and the server seems to be much speedier. Of course, it's nearly midnight on the east coast, but just before I did this (an hour ago) I saw the server crawl into its own bellybutton again and refuse to come out. So now after telling it to look somewhere else, it's going much better than before. I just hope this was the real cause of the problem.
But then again, I've been down this road far too many times to get my hopes up too much. Sigh.
19 Comments
Recommended Comments