Airspirits article about his home grown rack cooling setup (
as seen here ) was posted on Slashdot today. Resulting in a pretty massive beat down on the server.
The box isnt weak by any means, but it does have its limitations
They managed to take down a P4 1.7Ghz box w/ 512mb ram like it was nothing. Caused some of the back end services to kinda fail resulting in queue lengths over 400 in some cases.
after a reboot (which took 1 hour for it to do), the server is back and kicking servicing something like 120 requests a second almost.
Edit:
(Heres a link to the Slashdot post)
After looking at about 8 different logs, I pin pointed the timing of events from thismorning. and I think I can honestly say there is absolutely nothing that connects the Slashdot event today to the server crash. Seems a site service I ran got a lil confused and thought to spawn a couple hundred copies of itself after it got stuck in a recovery loop of sorts.
doing some work to avoid this problem in the future (erroneous service freak outs)