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2002-03-05

decibel [05-Mar-2002 @ 03:40]

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:: 05-Mar-2002 03:40 GMT (Tuesday) ::

Now that we have 52 million rows in the main table for the new stats system,
it’s become obvious that we need to re-optimize things a bit. In order to do
this, I’ll be turning off web access for a while. I hope this will take less
than 2 hours. Sorry for the inconvenience.

2002-03-04

decibel [04-Mar-2002 @ 00:56]

Filed under: Uncategorized @ 00:56 +00:00

:: 04-Mar-2002 00:56 GMT (Monday) ::

Master is once again listening to blower, so OGR should start processing RSN.

2002-03-03

decibel [03-Mar-2002 @ 20:53]

Filed under: Uncategorized @ 20:53 +00:00

:: 03-Mar-2002 20:53 GMT (Sunday) ::

Stats are back up. There is still a persistent problem with retrieving
OGR logs from the master, though. The issue is that blower’s IP isn’t
reversing. UD’s operations department has contacted the upstream
providers, who should have had this fixed Friday.

decibel [03-Mar-2002 @ 06:02]

Filed under: Uncategorized @ 06:02 +00:00

:: 03-Mar-2002 06:02 GMT (Sunday) ::

Murphy is alive and well it seems. After upgrading blower to FBSD4.5, php no
longer wants to talk to sybase. This is most likely due to the hacks that
were made to get PHP to talk to sybase in the first place. Unfortunately, the
person who set this up in the first place isn’t around tonight, so the odds of
it getting fixed tonight aren’t too good. He’ll probably be around tomorrow,
though, and I’m hoping that he’ll recognize what PHP is doing and be able to
fix it quickly. Until then, don’t expect anything useful out of stats. :(

2002-03-02

decibel [02-Mar-2002 @ 18:24]

Filed under: Uncategorized @ 18:24 +00:00

:: 02-Mar-2002 18:24 GMT (Saturday) ::

Stats will be going offline in about half an hour so we can do some
maintenance. We’ll try and keep the outage to a minimum, but the
site might continue to be slow for a bit even after we’re back.

There will also be a brief outage sometime this weekend so that we
can bring the box up to FBSD 4.5.

2002-02-28

decibel [28-Feb-2002 @ 18:26]

Filed under: Uncategorized @ 18:26 +00:00

:: 28-Feb-2002 18:26 GMT (Thursday) ::

We’re having some difficulties getting logs to blower after an IP address
change. We’re working on it, and stats should be running soon.

2002-01-16

decibel [16-Jan-2002 @ 01:23]

Filed under: Uncategorized @ 01:23 +00:00

:: 16-Jan-2002 01:25 (Wednesday) ::

There appears to be a network problem at UD right now, so stats and cvs
(and one proxy) are unreachable. I’ve notified the appropriate staff.

2002-01-15

decibel [15-Jan-2002 @ 08:05]

Filed under: Uncategorized @ 08:05 +00:00

:: 15-Jan-2002 08:06 (Tuesday) ::

AT&T seems to be having some issues in their network right now. I’m having
great difficulty getting to stats, although nodezero can hit the box fine.
Anyway, if you’re having trouble hitting any of our servers, I suggest
you just try again later.

2002-01-12

decibel [12-Jan-2002 @ 23:30]

Filed under: Uncategorized @ 23:30 +00:00

:: 12-Jan-2002 23:33 (Saturday) ::

Well, there’s good news and bad news.

Good news: I think I’ve finally squashed the last bug in the new statsrun
code, which was occasionally making the statsrun fail, requiring manual
intervention.

Bad news: as part of my debugging, I accidentally deleted all the OGR data
since 12/22/2001. No user or team settings were lost, so all that needs
to happen is re-running OGR from the 22nd to today. I’m going to do this
with web access turned off, so I’m hoping it will be done sometime tomorrow.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

2002-01-11

decibel [11-Jan-2002 @ 20:15]

Filed under: Uncategorized @ 20:15 +00:00

:: 11-Jan-2002 20:16 (Friday) ::

I’m trying to track down more bugs in the statsrun code, so I have web
access turned off again so I’m not fighting for CPU. Should be back on in
an hour or so.

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