Hi all,
There has been some downtime this morning (about 15 minutes) due to a
software update.
I pushed a software update, and immediately servers started crashing
according to nagios. Looking at ganglia, it looks like the issue was
the familiar issue where scap pushes a few 4-CPU apaches into swap,
which then crash and come back a few minutes later. This time,
however, obviously a key memcached node fell over, causing a database
overload, resulting in the site being mostly inaccessible for about
ten minutes.
I prepared to revert the software update, but determined that the
problem was not the software update, and a scap would exacerbate the
issue. The problem resolved itself spontaneously.
We need to fix things up so the scap script is less liable to push
machines into swap :)
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Andrew Garrett
agarrett(a)wikimedia.org
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