Pliny, which has been serving up
en.wikipedia.org for the last few
days, has been exhibiting disk problems again. This tends to point to
problems in the controller or motherboard rather or in addition to the
drive, since we just replaced the previous aching drive with a shiny
new one.
en.wikipedia.org and
boards.wikimedia.org have been moved for now back
to ursula along with the other languages. Since en makes up a lot of
the traffic by itself this is less than ideal; sometimes a surge on en
will briefly block out most access to other wikis, for instance.
Hopefully we can work something out on this soon with another machine
standing in.
Uploaded images from en are current on ursula up through January 24,
but newer updates are still on pliny and can't be copied off due to the
disk errors. If we can't coax it into cooperating remotely, Jason
should be able to reset things when he goes in on Friday and copy them
off then.
We're continuing to optimize the database configuration and smooth out
the hot spots, and sooner or later those new machines should arrive and
we can balance the load more cleanly..
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)