Sorry gang I didn't make it to the next version of software. The server load got too excessive and the response time was too long so the update program kept stopping because of lack of response from the server. So I restored the backup copies and went back to the known good system.I'll have to try again later on... Sorry for the down time...

what was creating the load on the server?

I wish I knew... I fired up Putty and hit the bash terminal figure I would attack the "top" command and its disabled. Figures the hosting company would do that to me...

How many folders get updated? When I do upgrades (version to version) I usually do it as follows (again, this is not knowing how your site's structure is laid out.) say, current web data is stored as follows: /home/webadmin/www/vBversion/current/4.1.8/... I do this:

$ cd /home/webadmin/www/vBversion/[www]mkdir backups[www]$ cp -r current/4.1.8 /home/webadmin/www/backups[www]$ cd current[current]$ rm -r 4.1.8/[current]$ mkdir 4.2.0/[current]$ cp -r /home/webadmin/staging/ /home/webadmin/www/vBversion/current/4.2.0/[current]$ 

This gives you an instant fall-back if the new version chokes. It's a matter of deleting /current/4.2.0 and copy 4.1.8 folder back to original location (giving the example has the application looking for the vB files in a specific folder location..) and all is instantly switched back to how it was, before the upgrade. I do this type of thing (application-wise) about every couple of months when our app gets updated (new versions.) $pwd will display current location you're in.. I.E.:

[root@WebAppSvr log]# pwd/home/root/jboss-4.0.5.GA/server/order/log[root@WebAppSvr log]#

Here's another tip:

[root@WebAppSvr log]# free -m             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cachedMem:         12007      10033       1973          0        429       3895-/+ buffers/cache:       5708       6298Swap:         8001          0       8000[root@WebAppSvr log]#

Here is free command...

-bash-3.2$ free -m             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cachedMem:         48746       7926      40820          0        157       7362-/+ buffers/cache:        406      48340Swap:         8191          0       8191

I'm going to have to call you some night and get linux leasons from you...

that box has a boat-load of memory!

odd that the upgrade timed out..

--- Update to the previous post...

Here is free command...

I'm going to have to call you some night and get linux leasons from you...

Sure thing. We'll have to schedule it, though, to ensure I'm #1: home #2: available

Otherwise, I'd be happy to help you as much as I can.

Again, I do 99.9% of my Linux operation(s) in terminal (PuTTY) and vary rarely do I interface with the boxes via GUI.

gotta love unix.... we have some of that here at work.:banghead: