Terra
11-12-1998, 08:12 AM
Around 5:10am EST, a Beta project that FutureQuest is working on went a little haywire... The server was back online around 5:56am...
We are working on ways of optimizing the nightly stats processing... It is an *extremely* resource intensive process...
In order to reduce the impact on the server, different methods of reverse resolving the logs are being tested... One test did not go so well, and a chain-reaction resulted, which forced a reboot of the server...
We try to schedule upgrades/testing/rollouts early in the morning when traffic/activity is slow... I have my fingers crossed that everyone was still asleep, and will never notice that anything really bad happened... http://www.aota.net/ubb//wink.gif
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*grumble* Trying to make tremendous strides in progress, only to get slammed at the final test... Must be the price one pays for progress... http://www.aota.net/ubb//frown.gif
In approximately 2 to 3 weeks, we are putting a new server online... I will be offloading many of the *intensive* tasks to the backend servers, in efforts that this situation not occur again...
Our apologies for any inconvenience this disruption has caused...
Andrew Gillespie
Systems Administrator
[This message has been edited by ccTech (edited 11-12-98).]
We are working on ways of optimizing the nightly stats processing... It is an *extremely* resource intensive process...
In order to reduce the impact on the server, different methods of reverse resolving the logs are being tested... One test did not go so well, and a chain-reaction resulted, which forced a reboot of the server...
We try to schedule upgrades/testing/rollouts early in the morning when traffic/activity is slow... I have my fingers crossed that everyone was still asleep, and will never notice that anything really bad happened... http://www.aota.net/ubb//wink.gif
---
*grumble* Trying to make tremendous strides in progress, only to get slammed at the final test... Must be the price one pays for progress... http://www.aota.net/ubb//frown.gif
In approximately 2 to 3 weeks, we are putting a new server online... I will be offloading many of the *intensive* tasks to the backend servers, in efforts that this situation not occur again...
Our apologies for any inconvenience this disruption has caused...
Andrew Gillespie
Systems Administrator
[This message has been edited by ccTech (edited 11-12-98).]