John was monitoring the system during tonight’s debate. Still has not specifically ID’d the bottleneck.
Here was his response when I asked what was happening:
“Database is nearly completely idle (0.25 load average) and web servers aren’t very busy. I don’t know why its screwed up. It doesn’t make sense. It must be a network problem.”
I saw myself that the load average was not high and that the cpu’s were mostly idle all night. I asked him if it could be a DOS attack or a configuration problem and he said could be. He’d look into it. Said the system was not overloaded and it would be a shame to buy a new database server and not solve the problem.
I’m in favor of swapping out the system a piece at a time until the bottleneck is found, but that’s just me. Don’t know what John’s going to do.