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What happened!!?
Database outage, I think.
After two short service interruptions we suffered an outright database crash that took the forum site offline for at least 16 - 17 hours.
What happened!!?
Database outage, I think.
And to bring us back online many unbelievers were sacrificed.After two short service interruptions we suffered an outright database crash that took the forum site offline for at least 16 - 17 hours.
... I deleted all my cookies for nothing then?
Skarg sent me and the Mrs a gif of a bloke with a huge willy and a few of us chatted some shit.What happened!!?
This happened (I thought it was just me! As I was logged out, I couldn't log in again to ask about the issue. I also cleared my cache & cookies - you're welcome Cookie Monster!)What happened!!?
I told her not to send anyone that pic of me!Skarg sent me and the Mrs a gif of a bloke with a huge willy and a few of us chatted some shit.
And you only had a semi as well. Kudos.I told her not to send anyone that pic of me!
Yeah, it's been cold up hereAnd you only had a semi as well. Kudos.
And I thought that it was only me! I figured I'd worry about it tomorrow. And I deleted anything that I thought would cause trouble. But I don't keep my cookies anyway. I try to erase as many of my footsteps as possible, though I know that it's almost impossible.This happened (I thought it was just me! As I was logged out, I couldn't log in again to ask about the issue. I also cleared my cache & cookies - you're welcome Cookie Monster!)
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And you only had a semi as well. Kudos.
Disgusting behaviour! She is old enough too know better. I trust you reported her.Skarg sent me and the Mrs a gif of a bloke with a huge willy
I live in a semi.And you only had a semi as well. Kudos.
I had feared an alien invasion.I'd considered all the most-probable negative possibilities, followed by many of the least-likely extreme situations, then in my final darkest moments of forum fear even contemplated whether angry external forces had taken it down (such as the Falkirk Buskers' Institute or the Carluke Innkeepers Association).
For clarity, while the site was down, I had a large Semillon. Sorry for any distress that auto-correct may have caused.And you only had a semi as well. Kudos.
For clarity, while the site was down, I had a large Semillon. Sorry for any distress that auto-correct may have caused.
That's a bit 'zen'.I blinked out of existence for 17hrs.
Hey, it must've just been the wind in the wires, but I could've sworn I heard you say something like 'having reset from a backup'....!!!Yithian said:Perhaps a product of having reset from a backup, but we're not yet sure.
This has my vote. The needs of Us Fortean Few far outweighs the petty insubstancy of many thousands of mere mortals. Give me a clipboard, a loudhailer and a shift-pattern, and I'll get started....And to bring us back online many unbelievers were sacrificed
What actually crashed? not the forum - i lurked long enough to see that posts stopped at 4:00 UTC - was it the members database that went offline?Database outage, I think.
I think that's it - the member details may be on a separate machine - because I noticed that the board was still up and running. I just couldn't log in.What actually crashed? not the forum - i lurked long enough to see that posts stopped at 4:00 UTC - was it the members database that went offline?
It sounds like the forumvial version of an NDE...namely, an NOE, a 'Nearly Online Experience'.....For a while I inhabited a weird hinterland in which I could browse the forums as a non-logged-in user
What actually crashed? not the forum - i lurked long enough to see that posts stopped at 4:00 UTC - was it the members database that went offline?
No, the core databases didn't crash (per se), and it doesn't appear anything was lost or corrupted in the database(s).
Something went wrong with a session data logging file that gets updated multiple times per day. The problem apparently involved a glitch that rendered the file inaccessible or unaddressable, which forced the system to recreate the state of the log (and cumulative logs reliant on its data) from scratch on each update cycle.
The resulting error condition had already been reported, and we were awaiting resolution. In the mean time, the forum kept chugging along with a periodic limp as it repeatedly worked to catch up with itself.
The total outage occurred at the exact time one of these updates would have been undertaken. For whatever reason (an overflow condition?) the limp escalated to a collapse on that go-round, and the whole operation shut down.
The breakdown pertained to high-level administrative record keeping of traffic and transactions (i.e., visits, visitors and postings) - not to the forum's content per se.
So, in laymans term then....to fix it, you switched it off and then on again?