Why does Settler II keep crashing?

[DrSpike]

Maybe that was GP's plan all along.

[H Tower]

Originally posted by obiwan18




Eh, I'll vouch for Panag. We have shared productive PM's.

Oh, and DanQ,

Canadians do tend to make good comedians.

Is the productive PM comment another one of those famous Canadian jokes?

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by H Tower

Is the productive PM comment another one of those famous Canadian jokes?

Well I certainly laughed.

[atawa]

Anyone who learns to speak Nederlands gets from me

[E_T]

Originally posted by DanQ
Unfortunately, the upgrade has not yet been completed as the memory type we have on order has not been in stock since our upgrade request was placed. Based on the information that RS has provided, the memory should arrive no later than the end of this week. There is, however, no guarantee that this timeline will not be extended.

Would it be any trouble to keep us informed as to the status of this, i.e. the ram is still shipping or it's now here...

That said, once the memory arrives and a RS technician begins the task of upgrading "Settler II"`s memory, the process should take no more than fifteen minutes.

I take it that the upgrade install might not be on the same day as the receiving of the Ram?

E_T

[TCO]

Return to GAMESTATS!!!!

[DanQ]

Originally posted by TCO

so Settler 2 was actually WEAKER than Settler1 in RAM, no? Did you share that info with us at the time?

Yes, "Settler II" was and still has less RAM installed than "Settler I" did. I believe I made that quite clear in my open letter and the reasons around it.

Here's a reference to an earlier mention of this fact: http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...21#post1940121

Originally posted by E_T

Would it be any trouble to keep us informed as to the status of this, i.e. the ram is still shipping or it's now here...



I take it that the upgrade install might not be on the same day as the receiving of the Ram?

E_T

First, yes the day RackShack (RS) receives the memory sticks may be different (i.e. earlier) than the day Apolyton's server is upgraded with it. As for keeping everyone up-to-date on the latest developments on this front, it may be difficult/inefficient depending upon how fast the turnover is from memory arriving and installation based on general timeline, RS informing us, online availability and so forth. Whatever the case, we will certainly do our best.

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Dan; Apolyton CS

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by DrSpike
Surely branching threads would solve all of our problems.

Stop trolling the troll!!

Argghhh, meta-trolling!!

[Ben Kenobi]

Is the productive PM comment another one of those famous Canadian jokes?

Seeing as I can't post a PM to resolve the conflict...

No, I do that fairly often, by addressing a post to two different people, I arrive at a general theme much better than intended.

[DanQ]

See the "Open Letter From The Administration (2)" news post at http://apolyton.net/about or as a forum announcement at http://apolyton.net/forums/announcem...?s=&forumid=31 for the latest related discussion.

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Dan; Apolyton CS

[rah]

Thanks for the update.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by alva
So what's going to happen when a couple of thousand new members sign up and dissabling the avatars won't cut it anymore?

The solution is to go to a multiserver system. That will cost $$$$ but the only alternative is to find a way to limit the amount of activity.

edit: Opps, I just read Danq's post right before mine. I guess we have a software problem.

[VetLegion]

DanQ, thank you for all your efforts, especially for keeping us up to date with what is going on

Not knowing the whole story I can not say anything really relevant , but it is my opinion that you need to take a firmer approach with RackShack. They do not seem very professional. How in hell can a service provider run out of memory?

Also, the software issue, if it is a part of their service then you should really find another provider. If it is your own fault, ah well, **** happens and I hope you fix it soon

[DanQ]

See the "Memory Upgrade Completed" news post at http://apolyton.net/about or as a forum announcement at http://apolyton.net/forums/announcem...?s=&forumid=31 for the latest related discussion.

Originally posted by VetLegion
DanQ, thank you for all your efforts, especially for keeping us up to date with what is going on

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Also, the software issue, if it is a part of their service then you should really find another provider. If it is your own fault, ah well, **** happens and I hope you fix it soon

You're welcome, re: updates, and to those who have expressed similar thanks to date. As for the monitoring software issue, it is a problem of our "own" as it was installed and setup by us.

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Dan; Apolyton CS

[PLATO]

Originally posted by TCO
Asher was right last time he said that the server needed more RAM or processor or whatever (long time ago). I put my money on him. Dan and Mark, but especially Dan, tend to have very clueless troubleshooting. Anybody remember all the asking posters to run tracert, when its friggin obvious that the problem was not at the user or net level. But only at poly.

From Dan's letter today:

xAlthough it was some time coming [related story] "Settler II", the name assigned to Apolyton Civilization Site`s (ACS) server, was upgraded by host RackShack earlier this evening with an additional 1GB of memory installed on top of the existing and initial 512MB set. "Settler II"`s total installed memory then is now 1.5GB.

From on/around 4:06PM until on/around 6:53PM Apolyton Time (EDT) this evening "Settler II" refused any and all HTTP (World Wide Web) service requests; in other words, these requests were received, processed and rejected by `Settler II`. The total downtime was around 2 3/4 hours, and based on a message received by the Apolyton CS administration from RS to the effect above the downtime was likely at least in part if not in whole the result of the memory upgrade. As is evident by this message being publicly read, HTTP services are again in working order.

So who's clueless TCO??

Thanks Dan for all you do!! When are we going to see the subscriptions to help finance the upgrades?