Possible Downtime - New News

[Irishbookish]

Fingers are crossed.

...and tongues.

Good luck!!

[firehazard]

Good luck, DzM.

I think it was down again for a while yesterday?

[DzM]

Good luck, DzM.

I think it was down again for a while yesterday?

It was, though due to my own error rather than bad hardware.

[DzM]

At this moment we've been running with All New Memory for just over four days. No hiccups. Things are looking good (I've been doing many behind-the-scenes things to abuse the new memory).

Fingers are crossed that this makes the problem go away and gets Medusa on more stable pontoons.

[DzM]

At this moment we've been running with All New Memory for just over four days. No hiccups. Things are looking good (I've been doing many behind-the-scenes things to abuse the new memory).

Fingers are crossed that this makes the problem go away and gets Medusa on more stable pontoons.

More good news here. We've been running on the replacement memory for nearly 43 days, no hiccups to speak of. It's looking pretty good that the problem was a bad RAM stick or two.

Later today (time permitting) the warranty replacement of the original memory will be plonked into Gir. Lots and lots of RAM will result. I may make programs malloc() just for fun after that. Screw free(), that's for wusses.

[DzM]

Later today (time permitting) the warranty replacement of the original memory will be plonked into Gir. Lots and lots of RAM will result. I may make programs malloc() just for fun after that. Screw free(), that's for wusses.

Gee, DzM, I never suspected this side of you...

(actually, I have no idea what it means -- it sounds somewhat sadistic & masochistic)

malloc() and free() is how ones allocates and releases memory in a C program. No properly freeing memory when you're done with it leads to memory leaks and (often) a rogue program eating all the system memory. But now that I've got a Shitload (technical term there) of memory in Gir, I can allocate and not release for a long, long time before it becomes a problem. Yay!

[territa]

Later today (time permitting) the warranty replacement of the original memory will be plonked into Gir. Lots and lots of RAM will result. I may make programs malloc() just for fun after that. Screw free(), that's for wusses.

Gee, DzM, I never suspected this side of you...

(actually, I have no idea what it means -- it sounds somewhat sadistic & masochistic)

[territa]

okay, now, why is your response to my post appearing before the subject post?

[DzM]

okay, now, why is your response to my post appearing before the subject post?

I'm a guy ahead of his time?

Or the clock was wrong on Gir when the message was posted, so they're now out of sync.

[DzM]

Just a head's up: Over the next hour or so I'll be doing some maintenance to Gir that will make Medusa be unavailable for somewhere between two minutes and days and days and days. Past experience has show it to be "a few minutes," but crazy things can always happen.

There you have it.

[territa]

Just a head's up: Over the next hour or so I'll be doing some maintenance to Gir that will make Medusa be unavailable for somewhere between two minutes and days and days and days. Past experience has show it to be "a few minutes," but crazy things can always happen.

There you have it.

And it's the largest full moon of the year. Nice timing.

[DzM]

Incidentally - This possible downtime is now behind us.

The Web server software was upgraded a day or so after I posted this notice. It broke just about everything, but I yelled at people and now things work as expected.

The fora software was upgraded yesterday. It too broke things, but evidently people had already been yelled at and now things work as expected.

I'm now off to break other things! Yay!

[philipchevron]

Incidentally - This possible downtime is now behind us.

The Web server software was upgraded a day or so after I posted this notice. It broke just about everything, but I yelled at people and now things work as expected.

The fora software was upgraded yesterday. It too broke things, but evidently people had already been yelled at and now things work as expected.

I'm now off to break other things! Yay!

Yay! My heart always sinks when I hear tell of Possible Downtime, as I never know whether the site is down or my laptop's a heap of crap.

[DzM]

Yay! My heart always sinks when I hear tell of Possible Downtime, as I never know whether the site is down or my laptop's a heap of crap.

At this moment if you are unable to reach our Medusa for some reason you can be reasonably sure (~80% chance) that your laptop or Internets (or both) are a heap o' crap.

If it was yesterday and you got weird errors about databases, then that was me actively breaking things (there was a twenty minute period where the odds of getting this error were greater than not getting it).

If it was two weeks ago and you got weird errors about Stubs and Server Errors, etc, that was also me actively breaking things (again, there was a twenty minute period where the odds of getting that error were greater than not getting it).

[philipchevron]

Yay! My heart always sinks when I hear tell of Possible Downtime, as I never know whether the site is down or my laptop's a heap of crap.

At this moment if you are unable to reach our Medusa for some reason you can be reasonably sure (~80% chance) that your laptop or Internets (or both) are a heap o' crap.

If it was yesterday and you got weird errors about databases, then that was me actively breaking things (there was a twenty minute period where the odds of getting this error were greater than not getting it).

If it was two weeks ago and you got weird errors about Stubs and Server Errors, etc, that was also me actively breaking things (again, there was a twenty minute period where the odds of getting that error were greater than not getting it).

I got no errors, just fears of errors.