What Are You Doing Right Now

scottalanmiller

When do you people do the important things, like sleep? I mean even if it is only a 10 minute nap while you wait on the coffee machine... does that count?

I been up since 5am after getting about 4 hours of sleep. Looking forward to my early exit for today.

I have to work till 8PM in the office here. So I will be on 21 hours when I get to head for "home".

RamblingBiped

I'm working on punching an OpenVPN connection through "The Great Firewall" in hopes the boss will soon be able to check his email on his laptop while vacationing overseas...

@RamblingBiped said:

I'm working on punching an OpenVPN connection through "The Great Firewall" in hopes the boss will soon be able to check his email on his laptop while vacationing overseas...

Um, you can get in serious trouble for that. You need permission from the Chinese government for VPNs. They are very business friendly and would likely approve it, but you need the paper work in place first.

RamblingBiped

@thecreativeone91 said:

@RamblingBiped said:

I'm working on punching an OpenVPN connection through "The Great Firewall" in hopes the boss will soon be able to check his email on his laptop while vacationing overseas...

Um, you can get in serious trouble for that. You need permission from the Chinese government for VPNs. They are very business friendly and would likely approve it, but you need the paper work in place first.

Well then... I guess I'm not working on getting a VPN up and running then. Good grief...

scottalanmiller

He is correct, China requires a request form and permission before any VPNs can be set up in the country.

scottalanmiller

Just had the most amazing lunch..... a fish and chips burrito!!

MattSpeller

2nd crash in 2 days on our DS412+ Synology NAS - I'm rapidly becoming unhappy with this hardware.

scottalanmiller

Have you looked in the logs or anywhere to see what might have caused the crash?

scottalanmiller

I'm having "whipped coffee."

MattSpeller

@scottalanmiller logs end 40 minutes before we got the first report of issues, very very unhappy.

scottalanmiller

So that suggests a few things.

The logging system crashed.
You were hacked.
Thrashing / OOM.
Disk is full.

scottalanmiller

It's hard to tell but do you have SAR reports on that box? If so, check them. They often show what has happened in a case like this.

MattSpeller

@scottalanmiller said:

The logging system crashed.

You were hacked.

Thrashing / OOM.

Disk is full.

that's part of it, certainly
possible, though I can think of more profitable things to do with one's hacking talents
it's possible, it did run out of memory once before but a patch solved it
disk is confirmed not full, but good call.

Were I a betting man, I'd point towards some kind of error crashing it's higher functions but leaving disk shares intact. It seems to "crash" about 30 minutes before it ceases to serve files.

MattSpeller

@scottalanmiller said:

It's hard to tell but do you have SAR reports on that box? If so, check them. They often show what has happened in a case like this.

what are SAR reports & how would I find / enable / investigate?

scottalanmiller

@MattSpeller said:

what are SAR reports & how would I find / enable / investigate?

Log in through SSH and run....

sar

Maybe you will get lucky and see some info.

scottalanmiller

@MattSpeller said:

@scottalanmiller said:

The logging system crashed.

You were hacked.

Thrashing / OOM.

Disk is full.

that's part of it, certainly

possible, though I can think of more profitable things to do with one's hacking talents

it's possible, it did run out of memory once before but a patch solved it

disk is confirmed not full, but good call.

Were I a betting man, I'd point towards some kind of error crashing it's higher functions but leaving disk shares intact. It seems to "crash" about 30 minutes before it ceases to serve files.

If I had to put money on it, memory leak leading to thrashing is my guess. I've seen this a lot, it's not that uncommon.

You can do a....

watch free -m

And that will give you some insight too.

scottalanmiller

Preparing to do some Redis cluster failovers.

@MattSpeller said:

2nd crash in 2 days on our DS412+ Synology NAS - I'm rapidly becoming unhappy with this hardware.

The software on those things actually runs off the storage drives rather than a flash memory so if the hard drives are having any issues it could cause it.

scottalanmiller

Not a design feature that I favour. When making an appliance like that it's much nicer to see the OS on a flash drive (SD card or whatever.)

Joy

Good morning to all.