| monk is up. The load average is high as I write this, but I suspect
| that's due to pent up cron/download demand rather than a systemic
| problem.

Brilliant. Thank you Paul for your prompt attention, even while on holiday.

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Paul Heinlein [mailto:[email protected]]
| Sent: 19 October 2009 21:36
| To: Simon Peyton-Jones
| Cc: Don Stewart; BuildBot Collator; Andy Moran; [email protected]; 
[email protected];
| Dougal Stanton
| Subject: Re: Hackage and GHC
| 
| On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Paul Heinlein wrote:
| 
| >> |  I don't have many details, but there is currently a problem with
| >> |  monk (darcs.haskell.org). Apparently any process that tries to
| >> |  read from /srv just blocks on disk, so possibly some sort of
| >> |  disk or RAID problem. Don definitely knows about it, and Paul
| >> |  has been e-mailed, so hopefully we'll know more and/or have a
| >> |  fix at some point on Monday.
| >
| > Simon et al.,
| >
| > I've been stuck in the wilds of California's Central Valley over the
| > weekend and have just rejoined the ranks of the Internet-connected.
| >
| > I'm still off-site (supposedly on vacation), so Aaron Tomb at the
| > Galois office was able to help me power-cycle monk. The first reboot
| > didn't work because /srv immediately locked up again. The second
| > time, I booted into single-user mode -- where it is now, trying to
| > fsck its filesystems.
| >
| > I don't have an idea when (or even if) the fsck process will
| > complete. It's complicated by the fact that it sits on a RAID1
| > array, so there's a disk-sync that needs to happen as well.
| >
| > I'll try to keep you informed, but for now I'm just waiting for fsck
| > to finish its run.
| 
| Status:
| 
| monk is up. The load average is high as I write this, but I suspect
| that's due to pent up cron/download demand rather than a systemic
| problem.
| 
| SMART is reporting that the disks are OK, but there were some reported
| errors on hda during the RAID resync, so I'm leaving open the
| possibility of an oncoming disk failure.
| 
| In the meantime, /srv on monk is getting quite crowded. I deleted a
| ton of old web logs before I brought monk into multi-user mode --
| reducing disk usage on /srv from 95% to 85% -- but it's definitely
| time for some housekeeping.
| 
| --
| Paul Heinlein                 Galois, Inc.
| Systems Administrator         421 SW Sixth Avenue, Suite 300
| [email protected]           Portland, Oregon 97204
| +1 503 626-6616 x140          www.galois.com

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