Remember the search engine Raddle's server cannot run because it eats too much RAM?

Turns out its Docker container has been running ever since we tested it, and despite being used for absolutely nothing, it's slowly been gobbling up all the free disk space. This caused PHP-FPM to crash, taking the site down.

(FYI, I was given server access again to upgrade Postmill, so I took the liberty of finding out why the site went down. Hope no one minds.)

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An_Old_Big_Tree wrote on May 26, 2018 at 10:16 AM

Thanks emma.

ziq wrote on May 26, 2018 at 5:00 AM (edited on May 26, 2018 at 5:01 AM)

I'm so glad I was fast asleep or I likely would have had a panic attack.

Cheeks wrote on May 26, 2018 at 2:19 AM

Lol.. How many log files did you have to dig through to find that out?

Leaving unused containers running that gobble up resources on a box hosting raddle == bad praxis. Haha.

Thanks Emma!!!

emma OP wrote on May 26, 2018 at 11:29 AM

None. I suspected it was a file system problem when PHP-FPM kept crashing. A quick df -h confirmed it.

Cheeks wrote on May 26, 2018 at 5:28 PM

Nice troubleshooting... I would've buried myself in log files for 10-15 minutes before even thinking about df or du.