Mabinogi World Wiki:Wiki Server News/2011/Q4

October 19, 2011

• On October 9, 2011, I took the server down for about an hour to reinstall the original fans in the machine. Since there is no need for quiet-operating fans, the original fans the machine shipped with have been reinstalled. I also took the opportunity to move the IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) port back onto the machine's primary ethernet port. That way the server occupies one switchport rather than two. The reason was while I was still in Fresno, the server was on a Cisco Catalyst switch whose ports take about half a minute to come online after a device either is freshly plugged into a port or comes active. While using one port and the machine is soft-rebooted, the system's two ethernet ports are "bounced", taken down, then brought back up. This kills IPMI on the same port. Since the switch the server is currently plugged into does not exhibit this behavior, I have moved the IPMI port back to the server's first ethernet port.

November 2, 2011

• I have instituted a CAPTCHA due to recent fits of spam on the site. I will likely tighten the screws as time goes on. Be advised I may institute regional blocks allowing only licensed areas to edit the site if too much spam comes in internationally from outside licensed regions. Neither I (the server's owner) nor Mabinogi World staff have anything against your country; just the activity emanating from it that we institute any block for. Right now, there is no region-based blocking on the site. If your region has access to Mabinogi and has a site similar to ours, we would rather you use and, if and where applicable, update, that site. Remember, if you use any material from our site, please follow our copyright guidelines for same. Please bear in mind that this site covers North America and Oceania (Australia and New Zealand) users.

• Machine was rebooted after dealing with a memory starvation issue. The machine went non-responsive at about 2119 or so PST, whereupon I was informed. I checked the server and killed off the hosting processes. I had meant to reboot the server since I had updated the kernel, so this event offered me the opportunity to do so. Thankfully, it was a clean shutdown and reboot. This will likely be the final mainline update to Natty Narwhal. I will likely do an install of Oneiric Ocelot's main kernel, Linux 3.0, to test to see how well the machine will perform in advance of a full upgrade to Oneiric. Will call a maintenance event soon. Additional note, earlier today, I had installed a VPN server process on my other colocated machine so I can use the IPMI service on this machine. The timing could not have been better given this event. I was able to set it up and test it without any pressure of duress of this event.

November 4, 2011

• Server went into another situation where it would consume all available memory. Used this opportunity to upgrade the kernel to Oneiric Ocelot's kernel, Linux 3.0.0. Server started up and is running properly. Will upgrade the entire distribution based on performance.