server guru's - quick question
 

I recently upgraded my server... actually, moved to a bigger/better server.

Since the move, all of my sitemaps stop in the 69,000kb range... they try to restart, but spin their wheels , so to speak.

The sites are all about the same size, so it leads me to believe their is some sort of limiting factor on each domain. My hosting company has no idea what I am talking about... so I came here for help.

Why would a domain not be allowed to have over, let's say 70,000 kb ?

What would limit each domain and where do I find it and kill it?

Thank you,
~Ray

That sounds weird. I would probably, out of habit, start off by restarting httpd, named, mysqld and see what happens.

When you did the move did they do a fresh install or just add some RAM and maybe a faster processor?

I just paid a programmer over 1k because support on 2 different servers had no idea what was happening. Everything and anything was the problem :(

Good luck... likely a setting. I had limiting settings on every function on both servers that prevented emails working correctly, uploads, speed of uploads, etc. etc.

If you want I'll give you a name of a guy that would likely be able to determine your site map problem quickly

What type of script is building your sitemap? Maybe check php limits. Did you check your error logs?

xml standalone version.



thanks for the advice everyone.. still dealing with chaos... since I am tech ignorant. I expected more out of a managed server.

~Ray

managed servers are horrible, if you have to pay a programmer and he can't make simple changes to your server you are going to spend a ton more... just my :2 cents:

There is lots of things ask of they use ksplice or CSF can do this as well. PHP itself is limited unless you change your php.ini file.

Yes, a managed server should be just that, managed. While your plan may not provide for adding domains, this is something that should be covered.

your sitemaps are huge, break them down more. they should be around 10 megs each.

The program is crashing on the new server. Bad RAM or the software is buggy and faulting when it hits that amount of memory usage.

Is your PHP on the new server running in safe mode? If so, the script that is probably disabling time limits with set_time_limit(0) could be failing due to the global timeout limit set in php.ini. ie if it is running in safe mode, set_time_limit() does not work.

If not, just check your php timeout limit in php.ini and increase accordingly (then restart) to see if the size increases