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07:40:01 PM CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 07:50:01 PM all 32.38 0.00 14.83 1.42 0.00 51.38 08:00:01 PM all 29.81 0.06 14.97 0.97 0.00 54.18 08:10:01 PM all 26.41 0.00 12.45 0.76 0.00 60.39 08:20:01 PM all 25.43 0.00 11.53 0.95 0.00 62.09 08:30:01 PM all 25.44 0.00 10.80 1.15 0.00 62.62 08:40:01 PM all 26.13 0.00 10.55 0.51 0.00 62.81 08:50:01 PM all 23.92 0.00 7.62 0.54 0.00 67.92 09:00:01 PM all 22.59 0.06 8.42 0.53 0.00 68.39 09:10:01 PM all 22.00 0.00 8.05 0.90 0.00 69.04 09:20:01 PM all 23.27 0.00 8.06 0.63 0.00 68.04 09:30:01 PM all 19.52 0.00 6.82 0.91 0.00 72.75 09:40:01 PM all 20.83 0.00 7.00 0.40 0.00 71.77 09:50:01 PM all 17.82 0.00 6.41 0.38 0.00 75.38 10:00:01 PM all 18.58 0.06 7.11 0.38 0.00 73.86 10:10:01 PM all 17.74 0.00 6.40 0.43 0.00 75.43 Average: all 23.46 0.01 9.40 0.72 0.00 66.40 load at 7:40 was around 15 or so. Several seconds to execute each page. top - 21:19:07 up 204 days, 19:27, 1 user, load average: 3.97, 3.18, 3.02 Tasks: 262 total, 6 running, 250 sleeping, 0 stopped, 6 zombie Cpu(s): 27.9%us, 18.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 52.2%id, 1.2%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.1%si, 0.0%st Mem: 12302712k total, 6826720k used, 5475992k free, 164572k buffers Swap: 2096472k total, 476868k used, 1619604k free, 3324168k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 3583 mysql 15 0 2653m 587m 3980 S 269.0 4.9 102021:54 mysqld 8684 apache 15 0 588m 59m 15m S 10.6 0.5 0:00.64 httpd 8658 apache 15 0 592m 63m 18m S 10.3 0.5 0:01.12 httpd 8678 apache 15 0 558m 38m 22m S 7.0 0.3 0:00.84 httpd 8566 apache 15 0 590m 78m 30m R 6.0 0.7 0:05.20 httpd 8353 apache 16 0 594m 105m 55m S 3.7 0.9 0:11.71 httpd

I installed sysstat...

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If anyone has any ideas on what I can look at while under heavy load, I can snap screen shots.

The OP didn't state you were going to the game - only that there would be one. Given that, I remember the last one I went to. Buff vs Jax. So exciting to see Jim get carted off thinking he was Batman. Love to tell stories about my first game experience watching Todd Collins...

Right now - here is where I'm at. I sent a note to Softlayer asking for a customer retention price on a modern rig, as that would be easiest. Alternatively, I'm looking at: https://www.digitalocean.com/ per BlueFire's recommendation and http://www.incero.com per many great reviews. They are actually down the road from Softlayer in TX. Digital Ocean is very intriguing based upon their pricing, but there has to be a catch. The $160 tier looks great for every day use with $320 tier for Draft and game days. Any insightful observations there would be great. I appreciate the other offers for hosting, but I have been through a dozen providers in the past and I'm just very particular.

Leasing and colocating are different animals. Clearly the cost savings on colo is appealing - until something goes and it has to be fixed. I'm considering it, but it is a huge roll of the dice.

Yet, that response actually misses my entire point by a country mile.

I guarantee you the percentage of people here with season tickets is in single digits... Have fun with your sausagefest.

The more I think about it the more wacked you people are. You can spend the evening with any beautiful, famous celebrity where you can have a story to tell for the rest of your life - compete with a selfie or two or you can sit in front of a TV for a few hours and watch other people experience life. That's completely !@#$ed up. It doesn't matter how the date goes - it's a better story/experience than the alternative.

a key point here is the amount of updates I need to do. Given all the work it will take to reconfigure things - I'm going to take the opportunity to grab more hardware resources for hopefully marginal dollars, even if it sits there idle. I guess I should just call and see what a straight RAM upgrade would cost, but I'm guessing it still makes sense to get new hardware. So, I can do smaller RAM increments on current server. I can get up to 20 GB for an extra $72, but with that extra cash, I could get an entirely better server all the way around I think.

It still gives you a better story than saying you watched a game on TV.

Erin Andrews... or any date for that matter. Never pass up being involved in an experience over watching someone else's experience. Life is too short. Now, if I'm PLAYING in that game... different story.

October: I stay under 5Mbps total all year. Get game day spikes of 4.5Mbps. 500 GB total throughput in October. physical storage is negligible. I doubt I need 40 GB in disk space. If so, that is the ballpark I need. CentOS

unfortunately, my choices are 4, 8, 12, 16, 32. Nothing in-between 16-32. I'm actually at 5.2 GB for the total forum database size (not including anything else on this server), so that is probably where I need to go. 16 is probably too small, but clearly better than what I have now - 32 is way over. I also think the faster memory should give a performance boost. 667 to 1333 should help - no?

haha. uh, yeah. 48 GB of RAM is an extra $180 per month. Those extra disks about another $100 per month. I'm not buying anything - this is all rented monthly, so the extra costs are forever. I'm not looking to foot a $7200 per year server bill.

The problem with the cloud, as I mentioned in the previous thread in Nov - I don't feel capable spec'ing what I need other than "what is my cost for my current rig at peak loads" and then going down from there during non-peak times. And although it is really attractive on paper, I can't predict when a coach gets fired or Mario Williams is going to be pursued, etc... I'm not sure how quickly resources can be given to me and what level of intervention is required on my part. I need a massive OS upgrade any way (and all the components in the LAMP stack). The cost of doing that in my time (disk gets formatted and fresh OS is installed - meaning the entire server reconfig process needs to be completed) means the time is right to look at hardware. If I can get the price to be equivalent then it is a free hardware upgrade (with newer "older" hardware) because my monthly cost isn't going down keeping the same hardware going.

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MySQL. On game days, it is I/O. Too many people accessing the same exact content (usually a single game day thread). I have to turn off a topic marking feature because of the high amount of writes that locks everything up.

So, I'm getting serious about getting a new rig. Unfortunately, I have the personality that renders buying socks a serious task as I look to maximize every aspect of the purchase. Ugh. Currently, we have: dual Xeon 5345 2.3 GHz quadcores 12 GB of 667 RAM dual 147GB 15k SCSI drives (Raid 1) I'm looking at: Dual Processor Hex Core Xeon 2620 - 2.00GHz (Sandy Bridge) - 2 x 15MB cache 16 GB Registered DDR3 1333 RAM 200GB SSD drive Now, the last part is significant and maybe someone can help me determine what we really want. I'm currently paying for 2 SCSI drives and a raid controller, with the idea if one disk crashes the other one steps up to the plate. I'm not sure that is what I really want. What I really want (I think) is: A full disk backup that can run the server (even if at a reduced performance) with limited (not necessarily zero) data loss. With the point being the server doesn't need to be fully reconfigured again if the hardware fails and we are up and limping along with limited down time. I THINK I'm fine with losing a day of data. If so, that lops $100 off per month and puts me in the same ballpark as the current server. Does anyone with server knowledge want to chime in here? I could use some help with determining storage architecture too. Comedians - please find another thread - I need a productive conversation here before the world of youth soccer sucks me back in. Lastly, server is currently in Dallas. Have option for Wash DC. Thinking that might be better for Buffalo based peeps.

Some of my favs: Jeremy - Pearl Jam (about a kid who blew his head off in front of his class) Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty (about his life post Stealers Wheel and some lawsuits he was dealing with) Solsbury Hill (Gabriel's feelings about leaving Genesis) Thunder Road/The River - Generic stories... I prefer this type of song to be about real events...

Not only is there audio, but I saw the video clip of it as well a couple weeks ago on a morning show.

although not a court of law smoking gun, but a smoking gun in my eyes... Cosby in the late 60's had a comedy bit about drugging and having sex with women. Seems to me that coincidence is far too much for me to accept, given that subject isn't necessarily a tried and true target for comedy.

The Talleys will need to measure twice and cut once for the forseeable future. One wrong purchase (new car, etc...) and the PR could become messy. I hope they navigate this well...

One of the few shows Deborah and I watch.