[Wikipedia-l] Server hell

Sun Oct 5 23:37:01 UTC 2003

Brion wrote:
>The server pulled its usual crashing trick some hours ago, 
>and came back up after rebooting but without the database 
>partition mounted or the mailing lists activated.
>
>Everything should be fine now, for a definition of "fine" that 
>means "could crash again at any time and going to have to 
>handle the full English webserving load as well as the database 
>and all other languages until we get both servers fixed".

Hey Brion, Jason, et al - thanks for trying your best to fix this problem. I 
have no idea how hard it would be to perform a triple bypass in the 
battlefield but I'm sure you guys are getting a taste of it. 

--- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)  