(12:05:16 PM) Marc: yep, totally down man

(12:05:27 PM) Marc: and I see you wrote that an hour ago
(12:06:03 PM) Feti: :<
(12:06:05 PM) Feti: it's up and down
(12:06:06 PM) Feti: gah
(12:06:13 PM) Marc: what's up with it?
(12:06:29 PM) Feti: just mysql as usual
(12:06:30 PM) Feti: and mpa3
(12:06:45 PM) Marc: this isn't normal though... it's been fine for many months
(12:06:45 PM) Feti: if we have this problem, it's nothing i can do anything about. we know this by now.
(12:07:15 PM) Marc: can't you track the process causing the issue?
(12:07:28 PM) Feti: marc, it's fucking MPA3
(12:07:29 PM) Feti: it's always mpa3
(12:07:32 PM) Feti: what do you want me to do
(12:07:41 PM) Feti: YOu bought shitty software, we have to deal with it
(12:07:44 PM) Feti: I told you this 2 years ago to move
(12:07:48 PM) Feti: And we haven't
(12:08:08 PM) Marc: such a monster process  to do that
(12:08:27 PM) Feti: No, it's not.
(12:08:33 PM) Feti: It's mpa3 locking records and nothing can get into it
(12:08:38 PM) Marc: if you can get me some specifics, I can create a ticket for them
(12:08:38 PM) Feti: THus creating a giant loop of CONNECT
(12:08:45 PM) Feti: *sigh*
(12:09:04 PM) Marc: just restart the DB and I'll contact them
(12:09:20 PM) Feti:
$ ps aux | grep mpa3
mpa3  71350  0.0  0.1  5080  1568  ??  Is    9:02AM   0:00.01 /bin/sh -c cd $MPA3_PATH; /usr/local/bin/php -d safe_mode=off -q mailer.php > /dev/null 2>&1
mpa3  71356  0.0  0.7 43036 13972  ??  I     9:02AM   0:00.10 /usr/local/bin/php -d safe_mode=off -q mailer.php
mpa3  71437  0.0  0.1  5080  1568  ??  Is    9:04AM   0:00.01 /bin/sh -c cd $MPA3_PATH; /usr/local/bin/php -d safe_mode=off -q mailer.php > /dev/null 2>&1
mpa3  71443  0.0  0.7 43036 13972  ??  I     9:04AM   0:00.10 /usr/local/bin/php -d safe_mode=off -q mailer.php
mpa3  71535  0.0  0.1  5080  1568  ??  Is    9:06AM   0:00.01 /bin/sh -c cd $MPA3_PATH; /usr/local/bin/php -d safe_mode=off -q mailer.php > /dev/null 2>&1
mpa3  71544  0.0  0.7 43036 13972  ??  I     9:06AM   0:00.10 /usr/local/bin/php -d safe_mode=off -q mailer.php
mpa3  71594  0.0  0.1  5080  1568  ??  Is    9:08AM   0:00.01 /bin/sh -c cd $MPA3_PATH; /usr/local/bin/php -d safe_mode=off -q mailer.php > /dev/null 2>&1
mpa3  71602  0.0  0.7 43036 13972  ??  I     9:08AM   0:00.10 /usr/local/bin/php -d safe_mode=off -q mailer.php

(12:09:22 PM) Feti: There
(12:09:34 PM) Marc: so it's all about the mailer
(12:09:55 PM) Feti: Looks like it
(12:10:22 PM) Marc: ok, well let's temp get it back online... kill something or whatever.
(12:10:28 PM) Marc: kill the mailer
(12:10:30 PM) Feti: I wiped them out
(12:10:46 PM) Feti: You shouldknow by now that it's going to do it again if we keep killing it
(12:11:06 PM) Marc: then restart the DB or something to bring it back to normal while I get mpa3 involved
(12:11:50 PM) Feti: i killed apache on webmaster, and mysql
(12:11:58 PM) Feti: and it just jumped directly back to 80% cpu
(12:12:03 PM) Feti: and now 46, and it's jumping around
(12:12:10 PM) Feti: it seems to be dropping right now holdup
(12:12:21 PM) Marc: at least it loads for a few more minutes... let me write up this critical ticket and have you proof it