[clue] website problems

[Raymond DeRoo]

Gus--

> There are better methods to recovering from this issue than what you are doing.   Are you consulting with people privately to resolve this ?  If so, who are they ? I have not heard any public discussion about how this should be handled.

I would say that I tend to agree with Dennis in this matter. The decision to rollback after a week+ of near continuos failure is the correct decision. Whether he made that choice alone, with a private club having a secret handshake, or by "democratic" voting, really doesn't matter from my perspective. I'd rather have a leader make a decision which he feels is in the best interest of the group than be hamstrung because the vocal minority doesn't like the option.

That being said, I have offered my services to the group to help assist with the performance issue, especially as there is a real belief that it is related to MySQL. Dennis said he would provide the data. That entire interchange was on this list, so I'm not sure why you wouldn't classify that as a "public discussion". Personally, I'm doubtful this is a MySQL issue, and I would say the issue is most likely with drupal. But the simple fact that the site is running on a VPS mean *ALL* bets are off when it comes to any kind of performance expectations and measurements.

Now my offer to help still stands, I would expect that the data points I need would be coming some time next week once the drupal site restored. Gus do you have an ab test suite to stress the drupal install? What monitoring metrics do you suggest? Do you have nagios/munin installed? What problem solving have you done thus far? What have been the results of your findings? What methods do you suggest for providing the needed information to community members and recovering from the current dreadful performance issue?

I look forward to your answers as I do not wish to waste times covering areas which you have checked through.

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