by Andrew Johnstone
After attaching an EBS volume and rsyncing files to the EBS device the server had a load average of 6 before the server became unresponsive to ssh connections and complained of a broken pipe for ssh.
The server was still responding to http requests and ping, however trying to establish a ssh connection, it connected and [...]
Updated bash script 23/01/2010: The script was assumed to run from EC2 itself, however I have since modified this so its applicable to local environments and made a little more robust.
There are quite a number of new tools from EC2, each requiring some form of setup on the server. As a result I have created [...]
Andrew Johnstone is a software engineer / lead developer working at Everlution Software.