The servers will be rebooted in a couple hours, circa 12:00 UTC, to
install new operating system kernels. These include routine security
upgrades, and hopefully the updated 64-bit kernel will help with the
database server's Mysterious Occasional Data Corruption problems.
This will probably mean downtime of 30 minutes to an hour; if some of
the machines fail to come back up it could take longer, but hopefully
not.
Those of you in Europe -- take a long lunch. :)
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)