Had the weekly outage today - the normal database/compression/cleanup stuff was by the book, however we took the time to address some other hardware issues. First and foremost, we replaced the failed drive on thumper. I was griping about this yesterday and how this means we'll have to reboot, which means we're forced to resync the root RAID devices. Well, that's happening now. I also upgraded the kernel on worf. That sort of went well - except upon coming back on line one of the spare drives was marked as failed. We're dealing with that now.

Coming out of these weekly outages has gotten painful given our increased rate of traffic lately, and these web queries that continue to clobber us. I try to aim these at the replica, which helps, but right after outages the replica is effectively offline for many hours as it is still busy recreating the giant tables. So I have to temporarily aim those web queries at the master, which makes recovery even slower. We gotta figure this all out, come up with a better weekly backup/reorg policy, or get that new replica server up and running sooner than later. We did order drives for it - should be here later in the week.

- Matt

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-- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person
-- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude

Matt, thank you!

You are the only one who faithfully keeps us up-to-date about whats going on. Without you Matt, we would never know what was happening with our favourite project :) Matt, you give me hope, and isn't that what keeps this project alive, Hope!

John.

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So Commander Worf and Chancellor Gowron are named, but the greatest General 'still alive' (Martok) isn't?

Hu'tegh! (qoH vuvbe' SuS) ;-)

((You do know that Worf killed Gowron, don't you? So perhaps Gowron is having its revenge in your server closet.)

Are those web queries still bots reading stats?
Since the replica database is effectively off line for a couple of hours after the outage, isn't it a good idea then to also disable the stats? Or does that not matter for the bots?

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Had the weekly outage today - the normal database/compression/cleanup stuff was by the book, however we took the time to address some other hardware issues. First and foremost, we replaced the failed drive on thumper. I was griping about this yesterday and how this means we'll have to reboot, which means we're forced to resync the root RAID devices. Well, that's happening now. I also upgraded the kernel on worf. That sort of went well - except upon coming back on line one of the spare drives was marked as failed. We're dealing with that now.

Coming out of these weekly outages has gotten painful given our increased rate of traffic lately, and these web queries that continue to clobber us. I try to aim these at the replica, which helps, but right after outages the replica is effectively offline for many hours as it is still busy recreating the giant tables. So I have to temporarily aim those web queries at the master, which makes recovery even slower. We gotta figure this all out, come up with a better weekly backup/reorg policy, or get that new replica server up and running sooner than later. We did order drives for it - should be here later in the week.

- Matt

Thank you sir. Your updates and constant efforts are greatly appreciated

get another server to help with the load is really the only solution.

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I recommend Secunia PSI: http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/
Go Georgia Tech.

Thanks team for all the hard work. One thing to note is the outage notice is still showing on the front page

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Thanks team for all the hard work. One thing to note is the outage notice is still showing on the front page

If your talking about the news notice, that a permanent notice.
It you can't view the front page, flush your browser cache.

Unfortunately, flushing the browser cache doen't help. Weekly outage notice is still on the front page.

get another server to help with the load is really the only solution.

There is always this pesky problem about money.

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Thanks team for all the hard work. One thing to note is the outage notice is still showing on the front page

If your talking about the news notice, that a permanent notice.
It you can't view the front page, flush your browser cache.

Everything is sorted on front page. Thanks

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