Update
Tonight I updatd the blog to WordPress version 2.1.3, as simple as usual (backup all files, remove a number of PHP files, roillout the zip-file (in the generic location) and run the upgrade script – once for each of the blogs), and the specific include file that I had to edit in the begining (classes.PHP) has been disabled by now – the code now runs out-of-the-box.
The theme that I use now isnt fully compatible, it seems: the image of the OpenVMS Forum expanded well into the textual area so I removed the link to the image. But for the rest, it looks good.
Reason for this update: I want to create a blog on this year’s bootcamp, either within SYSMGR or separately. I found a nice theme that I can use – after some adaptations. I’m still working on that. It may become the major entrypoint of the web as well – this is under investigation. But there is one problem: it requires a plugin that causes tremendous problems: It causes any admin function to fail – even when not enabled – by exhausting over 8 Mb of memory….(that is: 800.000 in hex). And I found it may require PHP 4.3 – at least. So wheter it cab ne used remains to be seen.
Webserver issues?
It looks as if the webserver has some problems – it seems to be stalled sometimes, even static pages won’t show up. I restarted the server yesterday, since there has been very heavy traffic for a few minutes, causing a lot of pagefaults and leaving the pagefile full for about 70% – where it was less than 50. It did make some difference, but I guess I’ll need to do more. But a full stop of the system is out of the question, unless as a last resort.
What goes on behind the doors of the (private) data center