Steve,<br><br>We were hammered today by a system spidering the OWW server out of control. We worked with Rackspace into the evening to make sure that the server got out from under the barrage. We ran well over twice our daily bandwidth and database activity. This started last evening. The system was periodically throwing database error as it started. The php errors were caused when we added a new extension. <br>
<br>I'm very sorry you lost data. After this weekend, OWW will finally be running or an up-to-date version of linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5). We'll also have a fairly big local server (shmoo) running on a system we can test with that has the same version of Linux as the production server. Our current local development server (beta) has been severely challenged to keep up with the burden we put on it. <br>
<br><br>Sincerely, <br><br>Bill Flanagan<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:59 PM, Steven J. Koch <<a href="mailto:sjkoch@unm.edu">sjkoch@unm.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">Over the last 24 hours or so, I</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">'</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">ve encountered a lot of errors on OWW, many of them causing me to lose data. For example, this one:</font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-us"><b><font face="Calibri">Parse error</font></b></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">: syntax error, unexpected ')' in</font></span><span lang="en-us"><b> <font face="Calibri">/data/web/extensions/active/LNCalendar1.php</font></b></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri"> on line</font></span><span lang="en-us"><b> <font face="Calibri">93</font></b></span><span lang="en-us"><b></b></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">Upon hitting</font></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri">"</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">back</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">"</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri"> or refresh, I can</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">'</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">t recover the form data.</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">Also, I was receiving</font></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri">messages</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri"> about something like</font></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri">"</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">too many connections</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">"</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri"> cannot connect to OWW.</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">I</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">'</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">m guessing this is related to upgrades or something, but thought I would post, in case nobody knows of the problems.</font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">--Steve Koch</font></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-us"></span><a href="http://www.openwetware.org/wiki/Koch_Lab" target="_blank"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><u></u></span><u><span lang="en-us"></span></u><u><span lang="en-us"><font color="#0000ff" face="Calibri">www.openwetware.org/wiki/Koch_Lab</font></span></u><span lang="en-us"></span></a><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></p>
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