Elftown crash

Elftown, that is the computer running Elftown, didn't survive my tests with threading. This gave the result that Elftown was down about 0:00 to 13:00 (Elftown time) today.

The short story: I will not be able to speed up Elftown by using threads.

The long story: Threads in the server makes it possible for Elftown to serve other requests while it is working with a huge database-questing and things like that. It doesn't help Elftown to do serve more people, but people who request simple pages will have faster response-time.

Threads do however have a lot of problems. I've seem to solved the ones in the server, but Linux-kernel 2.4.8 on this hardware failed and the entire system died hard. It didn't die as in "Kernel panic" (Linux version of Blue Screen of Death), but as in "The fans are still working, but not even the screen-signal or the lamp on the network-card is alive.".

Maybe a newer kernel will solve the problem, but I do think there is something wrong with this hardware. And it's pretty slow, so I think I'll wait until new arrives.