Hardware outage at freshmeat
by Patrick Lenz, in freshmeat - Wed, Jan 16th 2002 17:49 UTC
As you may or may not have noticed, freshmeat has suffered from some major downtime from 11am EST to 5pm EST. Both database servers crashed hard and refused to boot with various kernel revisions and mylex driver modules. OSDN's netop staff worked hard to get a replacement machine up and running which neither cooperated nicely at first. The site is up in semi-stable state right now and searches are still disabled while we're working on getting the search database server back up and running. Please bear with us and sorry for the inconvenience.
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OK, keep hunting
by Lee Dunbar - Sep 25th 2002 15:21:07
Patiently yours.....
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Notice
by ondruska - Mar 11th 2002 17:38:19
Hi,
Next time you could place a dumb web server with a simple note:
"We've got troubles, try again in X hours."
Peter
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Great Work :)
by alram84us - Jan 17th 2002 14:05:10
This is why OSDN rocks! As soon as a problem is encountered, a notice is
sent to members and other affiliated sites. Great job, guys! :)
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I was worried....
by Mark Anacker - Jan 17th 2002 11:36:12
Good work getting it back up... I wasn't sure if it was at our end, your
end, or somewhere in-between. Next time something happens, how about
posting a notice over at at OSDN main page? Otherwise, people sit around
like worried parents waiting for the overdue teenager to come home :-)
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Re: I was worried....
by Yazz D. Atlas - Jan 18th 2002 18:39:38
> Good work getting it back up... I wasn't
> sure if it was at our end, your end, or
> somewhere in-between. Next time
> something happens, how about posting a
> notice over at at OSDN main page?
> Otherwise, people sit around like
> worried parents waiting for the overdue
> teenager to come home :-)
Humm... I'll bring that up at the next meeting we have. Just need a easy
way to do it. Like a small side box on the site that people could see if
there are any outages or planned maintance happening....
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Re: I was worried....
by Stephen Samuel - Mar 22nd 2002 13:36:27
> Humm... I'll bring that up at the next
> meeting we have. Just need a easy way to
> do it. Like a small side box on the site
> that people could see if there are any
> outages or planned maintance
> happening....
Just pull a box from somebody's desk. If all you're doing is serving a
single static page, it's not gonna need massive disk I/O or anything --
just apache (/tux) and an ethernet card that won't melt down under the
pressure.
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Thanks
by thissurfer - Jan 17th 2002 09:23:09
all the quick help/solutions your software database has brought me could
never be repaid. although I was nervous at first, i assumed if the site
isn't up, it must be a serious problem and will be taken care of as quickly
as possible.
THANKS for all the good work (and keeping the users informed about what
happened)
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Thanks for this wonderfull tool !
by Yann - Jan 17th 2002 05:02:13
I would like to join the concert of thanks. With a disponibility of 24/24
hours on 365/365 days, how could we blame you ? :)
Thanks again, yann.
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God bless you
by Mohammed Sameer - Jan 17th 2002 02:47:31
i also visit it more than 5 times a day for various reasons
god be with you guys and keep the great work
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Freshmeat
by Richard Clark - Jan 16th 2002 23:20:07
Hey, check it out, a generic thread where we can express out appreciation
of all freshmeat has done for us software junkies.
THANKS GUYS. YOU KICK ASS.
:)
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Whew
by Arthur H. Johnson II - Jan 16th 2002 23:05:50
I was scared! I visit your site about 10 times a day, if not more.
Glad your back!
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It's okay...
by Tiger_66_Y2k - Jan 16th 2002 23:03:12
With as many times as your site has helped me out. I don't mind it being
down a couple hours so that you guys can do hardware/software upgrades or
replacements. Not at all... Keep up the *great* work guys!!
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Reason?
by Christoph Luehr - Jan 16th 2002 19:31:18
Hi,
it would bei nice to hear something about the
reasons for the crash, as soon as they're detected...
regards, chris
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Re: Reason?
by valdez - Jan 16th 2002 20:43:14
Yes, let us know what happened, il will be very interesting!
Thank you for the good work!!!
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Re: Reason?
by gafami - Jan 16th 2002 20:54:23
hope u get everything back to normal real soon, i also had a major crash on
2 of our servers last weekend...
cheers,
-joerg
> Hi,
>
> it would bei nice to hear something
> about the
> reasons for the crash, as soon as
> they're detected...
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> regards, chris
>
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Re: Reason?
by Yazz D. Atlas - Jan 18th 2002 18:54:05
> Hi,
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> it would bei nice to hear something
> about the
> reasons for the crash, as soon as
> they're detected...
>
> regards, chris
>
Well to put it simply have you ever planned an upgrade to a new kernel
then find out it won't work? Hardware that is supported just won't work.
One of thoses lovely little things you can't really plan for.
You might ask why the kernel upgrade? The answer would be the machine was
not being very stable under the other kernel. The DB was just not getting
along with the setup and if given time would lock up the machine.
Thats the basic facts without going into great detail of the hair pulling
and long irc chats. For the moment there are still unsolved issues but we
are working on real solutions to keep everything working.
Belive it or not Freshmeat has some of the best uptime records of OSDN
machines.
Oh by the way Scoop rocks!
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Lol...
by googleman - Mar 26th 2002 01:51:59
How about calling the national disaster dudes and have them broadcast a
warning across the nation! nah, too much...
Perhaps put a notice opn all opf the OSDN websites? that way everyone who
visits an OSDN website will know. Don't make it too large though, too big
would be an eye sore.
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