We are aware of the problem with the ‘aviation’ web server and are working on resolving it. The issue appears to be specific to just that server. The main symptom is very slow loading websites. This is not related to any mysql, email, or any other issue other than aviation itself.
Update: 3:28PM [...]
The issues that arose yesterday haven’t surfaced again. The affected servers were venkman, cerritos, archibald, flanders, rupee, ralphie, cheeky, pizarro, butterfinger, and selma and they all seem to be doing much better with the exception of selma.
Selma was moved to an entirely different rack last night to see if we could isolate the problem. [...]
We’ve done a couple things since the last post regarding the malfunctioning switch. The switch firmware has been upgraded and the final reboot this entailed seems to have brought everything back up in normal working order. We’ve isolated a few suspect machines to see if the problems follow them or if it is indeed [...]
And they seem to be following some of the servers…
A switch in our Alchemy datacenter is not communicating with the rest of our network. This is affecting the following servers:
venkman, cerritos, archibald, flanders, rupee, ralphie, cheeky, pizarro, butterfinger, and selma
These servers will have intermittent connectivity to the rest of the internet and to their [...]
We are currently experiencing packet loss over one of our incoming network links. Our administration team is currently working on this issue. We will update this status post once we have more information. Sorry about any problems you are experiencing.
UPDATE: This issue has been resolved now. This was occuring for [...]
The server “selma” crashed pretty hard over an hour ago and all attempts at reviving it have failed. We’re currently swapping in new hardware for it and everything should be up and running again shortly.
UPDATE 10/6/2006 6:00am PDT (GMT-8:00) Selma server is having problems with some of the Apache processes not running properly. If [...]
A switch in our Alchemy datacenter is not communicating with the rest of our network. This is affecting the following servers:
alexander, baht, contra, smithers, lenny, mcclure, millhouse, willie, seamus, selma, abbazaba, defender, joust, altoid, lisa, skinner, chalmers, wiggum
We are investigating the cause now and will have an update for your shortly.
- UPDATE -
The [...]
Pico and attila are going down for RAM upgrades. Total downtime will be roughly 10 minutes. Check this space for updates.
- UPDATE Tue Oct 3 23:15:12 PDT 2006 -
The upgrades are complete and both servers are back up with double the RAM.
Well, you missed it. We’ve switched charities now on the web panel to Defective by Design and Santa’s Helpers.
(We ended up getting $904.21 from 36 contributors for the WWF and $383.32 from 17 contributors for C3.) Whoa.
Some of you are experiencing intermittent problems when connecting to your email. The majority of you are noticing it with webmail, but it is an intermittent problem affecting pop and imap connections as well. We believe these problems are only occuring on one cluster (spunky) which we are investigating. We are working [...]
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