Rowan Collins wrote:
As for being able to access some wikis and not others,
I don't think
the servers are divided like that, so I'd say it must have been either
a) coincidence, b) some odd side-effect of different load on the
actual databases or c) some transitory problem with the settings that
meant some addresses were pointing to the wrong place or somesuch.
What that generally means is that one of the squids is offline. At the
moment this is happening with annoying frequency as we've had some
problems getting log rotation to work properly on the new machines.
Squid is brain-dead and will *crash* if its log file reaches 2 gigabytes
(which happens fairly frequently when you get our level of traffic).
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)