Around 9:20pm PST, I rebooted the primary webserver. Pretty minor reason - just adding a boot parameter to work around linux kernel bug #7068. Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned and I ended driving out to the data center and spending about an hour of quality time there. Add in driving time, and the service was down for about an hour and half tonight.
By down I mean the website was inaccessible. As usual, all inbound mail was queued during the downtime and things are going just swimmingly now. There is a decent sized backlog, but that's mainly due all the CPU and disk we've diverted to search experiments recently. So archiving will be a little slow over the next day or so, but probably not ridiculously so. Anyway, that's the scoop. This particular problem won't happen again. That just means next time it will be a different one, but it really has been a while. I'd almost forgotten what the inside of the datacenter looks like. :) Anyway, my apologies. Cheers, Jeff PS. Would you believe there was a traffic jam at this time of night? Due to road construction, but still... _______________________________________________ Discussion list for The Mail Archive Gossip@jab.org http://jab.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip
