On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 1:44 PM Maarten Dammers maarten@mdammers.nl wrote:
Andrew,
I got 30+ emails and counting for stale file handles, permission errors, email bounces, etc. Not sure what definition of brief you're using for the outage (in my line of work that's sometimes less than a second), but all these emails seem to have been send in a two hour window based on the timestamps. Start 17:42 end 19:55 (both Amsterdam time). Maybe you can stop cron next time you're going to planned break toollabs? Or was this caused by the dns + network outage?
The errors in Toolforge were unintended side effects of the OpenStack upgrade. The network issues cascaded to cause a variety of issues across Cloud VPS projects including Toolforge. We will be working on an incident report and it will be shared with this list when it has been prepared.
Those of us on the "root@" emails got around 400+ emails triggered by various parts of the service interruption, so we have empathy for the inbox problem this caused for others. :/
Bryan