During the last weeks I often received this error. Especially (It seems to me) while there is app. run.(Besides this no particular pattern visible to me. Mostly this occurs for five Minutes but sometimes last for hours). Is this due to the increased attempts to connect or are you trying something.

Me Dragon uses the little fiery Foxy 2004
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During the last weeks I often received this error. Especially (It seems to me) while there is app. run.(Besides this no particular pattern visible to me. Mostly this occurs for five Minutes but sometimes last for hours). Is this due to the increased attempts to connect or are you trying something.

The missing DB caught me today for the first time, but multiple times and it took some minute-two.

I've seen two versions:

Error: 1045
Access denied for user 'apache'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

Error: 1040
Too many connections

17:25:05 up 54 days, 3:37, 4 users, load average: 3.87, 2.87, 2.59

17:45:07 up 54 days, 3:57, 4 users, load average: 17.63, 9.39, 5.07

For the past several hours not only have I seen no database errors, but also all pirate pages load noticeably faster.
I'm constantly very impressed by this crew & Captain.
Another well deserved patented sitting ovation!
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For the past several hours not only have I seen no database errors, but also all pirate pages load noticeably faster.
I'm constantly very impressed by this crew & Captain.
Another well deserved patented sitting ovation!

During that period I did just about nothing to the server.

Before yesterday, and for many weeks before that, if I was trying to navigate from a pirate page to another pirate page (even the Glossary) it would take as long as 20 seconds for that page to load.
At some point yesterday all pirate pages were loaded almost instantly. This is still the case now.

Some 20 minutes later, the page is still not yet opened! One minute later I've tried to open the page again in another window and yet another window with this reply - it took twoooooo long minutes.

And, BTW, is the e-mail notification out of order?

Pepo wrote:

Some 20 minutes later, the page is still not yet opened! One minute later I've tried to open the page again in another window and yet another window with this reply - it took twoooooo long minutes.

Now it is reasonally fast again, but until 3 minutes ago, everything was slow and I was also getting "CACHED 11:02 AM EDT...", then it got replaced with "CACHED 11:20 AM EDT...". So at least the 10 minutes of caching are not true. (The next update I've seen was 11:35 AM EDT, so possibly 15 minutes?)

Arrrr. Blast!
Every time I'm here since my last post trying to do damage I have no problems other than sometimes a slow load of the server status page.
But then I've never noticed such low numbers:
2 users, load average: 0.43, 0.39, 0.44

I'm guessing that many pirates chose this time for a break and are down below swilling grog.
Yo ho Captain, why not let out all stops and and let the work flow at full steam.
I'll go below and grab some grog for us working pirates. I'll be right back.
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I've noticed the low numbers for the past week also ... I can recall much higher numbers in the past months - just now: 22:20:03 up 2 days, 4:49, 2 users, load average: 0.46, 0.44, 0.39

pages seem to load much faster since server reboot ... I've been checkin' me plunder about 10 times daily since ye spilled yer chest! btw - great idea for page cache capt'n ...

only noticed one db connection error, over past 2 days, on 6 different computers, maybe I gots the lucky dubloons! can you check server load and see if any correlation?!

7/12/2007 12:46:00 PM|Pirates@Home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work
7/12/2007 12:46:00 PM|Pirates@Home|Requesting 47480 seconds of new work

7/12/2007 12:46:05 PM|Pirates@Home|Scheduler request failed: HTTP internal server error

7/12/2007 12:46:05 PM|Pirates@Home|Deferring communication for 11 min 52 sec
7/12/2007 12:46:05 PM|Pirates@Home|Reason: scheduler request failed
7/12/2007 12:58:02 PM|Pirates@Home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work
7/12/2007 12:58:02 PM|Pirates@Home|Requesting 47498 seconds of new work
7/12/2007 12:58:07 PM|Pirates@Home|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 509]

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CACHED 12:53 AM EDT
2 users, load average: 4.46, 1.64, 0.79
No problems that I notice.
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Good idea. If we are going to give it a test, let's give it a real test. I had increased the cushion to 7, but now I've raised it to 17, and we'll go higher if necessary.

The cushion is the number of WU's to have hanging around waiting to be served. I can also limit the number which are served per host, and we can play with that too, so see if we can fully load the cluster. We'll see if this generates more of these high load events, or if the number stays the same. Then we'll swap in the new feeder and see what that does.

Looking at the status page for the system load may show you evidence of this problem, but maybe not. The load is sampled every 5 minutes, while one of these events only lasts a minute or two. Here is a screenshot just after such an event:
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10:45am EST - 4 users, load average: 1.91, 1.85, 1.41

11 wu's in queue, and I've received and crunched several wu's this morning without issue! Aaaargghh .... keep feeding 'em!!
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Good idea. If we are going to give it a test, let's give it a real test. I had increased the cushion to 7, but now I've raised it to 17, and we'll go higher if necessary.

Getting this error right now:

7/13/2007 5:30:15 PM|Pirates@Home|Requesting 17280 seconds of new work
7/13/2007 5:30:20 PM|Pirates@Home|Scheduler request failed: Error 403

G^R
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Getting this error right now:

7/13/2007 5:30:15 PM|Pirates@Home|Requesting 17280 seconds of new work
7/13/2007 5:30:20 PM|Pirates@Home|Scheduler request failed: Error 403

G^R

Just had a real hard time trying to load pirate pages.
Did we just have another event?
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Just had a real hard time trying to load pirate pages.
Did we just have another event?

It is happening now again. Either "Error: 1045 - Access denied for user 'apache'@'localhost' (using password: NO)" (mostly) or "Error: 1040 - Too many connections".

Cached status is now more than 30 minutes old, showing 0 ready results and minimal load averages (0.48, 0.47, 0.61).
Database server status was:
Querys/sec (avg): 17.077
Open tables: 64
Threads: 39

P.S.: Let's see how many (unsuccessful) copies of this message will appear in the thread!
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Some hour-two ago the web pages were not very responsive. I've tried to open the Status on two pages, the first one opened a minute later than the second one, but the contents - pretty rapid load fall:

Uptime
CACHED 6:26 PM EDT on 18 Jul 2007 (updated every 10 minutes)
alvarez:
18:20:22 up 5 days, 2:09, 4 users, load average: 25.28, 16.91, 9.53

and
CACHED 6:41 PM EDT on 18 Jul 2007 (updated every 10 minutes
alvarez:
18:40:02 up 5 days, 2:29, 4 users, load average: 0.24, 0.87, 3.37


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