| Network Maintenance: Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 04:00-06:00 UTC/GMT |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|02:00 pm] |
EDIT@08:16 UTC/GMT. Wow. That was ugly. I expected it to go for 30 minutes and have maybe 1 minute of broken connectivity. Instead it lasted over 4 hours and we had 10 minutes of downtime directly related to the load balancer upgrades and then another 5-10 minutes of downtime when our primary Pingback database server crashed and the secondary couldn't take over; which could have been indirectly caused by the network upgrade missing a self-VIP.
Anyways, we're up, we're working, the load balancers are barely breaking a sweat right now and I need some food and a shot of whiskey. I don't even *like* whiskey!!
Thanks ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mhwest and dnewhall for helping out!
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On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.
Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.
We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!
As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work. |
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[Nov. 10th, 2009|04:36 pm] |
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SHOTS HURT LIKE HALE. :( OWW, WHY MUST I USE MY LEFT HAND FOR EVERYTHING. Tomorrow, First Aid then Thursday, Kiss concert. HOW MUNDANE |
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| Oh noes! |
[Nov. 8th, 2009|01:37 pm] |
I'm pretty sure LOOKBOOK is evil for making me want to spend all my money on stuff that is NOT school. D: |
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[Nov. 8th, 2009|01:27 pm] |
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i live under and dictate my behavior according to the completely unsupported notion that my neighbors can hear anything i'm doing, listening to, or talking about. |
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| HURR IM A DURR |
[Nov. 8th, 2009|11:18 am] |
"Hiroshi Kamiya as Negi Springfield (adult)" This has made my life. haha Now all Negima needs is Nanri Yuuka, Asakawa Yuu, and Shintani Ryoko .... and Kitamura Eri for all of my favorites to be assembled into some sort of SUPER SEIYUU SQUAD. I mean, THEY HAVE HAVE KUGIMIYA RIE NOW LOLOL |
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| Camille: IS A GAY BACON LETTUCE TOMATO SAMMICH (GBLT) |
[Nov. 6th, 2009|10:57 pm] |
I am bored. Like, really bored. Like, "I think I should go over my French" bored. Why is my life so mundane? XD I stated playing old school Pokemon again. I chose CHARMANDER. :V I TOOK NO EASY ROUTE.
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| life update |
[Nov. 4th, 2009|09:20 pm] |
So, I was in the mood to update this in case anyone might read it who isn't up to date with what's going on in my life. Nothing amazing, just a summary of what's going on with me lately. Won't be too long because I want to go to bed.
Finished undergrad, got into graduate school in Aero Eng with NC State University
Got a position as a research assistant working in VA near NASA LaRC
Now over halfway through 2 year program to get Master's and hoping I will survive that long
Classes and research have been far more difficult than I ever imagined
Stress levels over the past year and change have been higher and longer than any time in my life
High stress led me to look for outlets, tried exercise, drinking, etc, eventually started cutting myself
Eventually landed in the hospital for stitches after a bad cut
Told parents about cutting habits and stopped doing it so far
Suffering from chronic fatigue and migraines that come around every 4-8 weeks
Hate my job and where my life is right now
Really regret the decision to go to graduate school, one of the worst of my life
Feel stressed and uncertain about what I want to do with my life, if anything
So, over a year's worth of happenings in a short list. Scintillating. Now I'm going to bed because I've had a migraine coming on for some time and sleep is the only thing that ever helps. Bye. |
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