[Labs-l] Labs down?

[Hedonil]

Appreciate your foo & work, Yuvi!
..and community is a slasher ;)

I think, that's a very good combo for a fruitful development.

-Hedonil

On 20/05/14 17:40, Yuvi Panda wrote:
> Hello!
>
> nginx barfed this time because it ran out of open file descriptors.
> I've prepared (and Andrew has merged) a patch that has raised this
> limit, and also a bunch of other tuneups that should make it perform
> better. Also moved off nginx 1.7.0 to a supposedly more 'stable'
> 1.6.0, so that might help as well.
>
> Apologies for the intermittent downtime, which don't seem to be happening now.
>
> There was not much load on the box throughout, so I don't think a new
> box will help much. In the future we might have two VMs load balanced
> via DNS, and I think that's an easier / better solution than getting a
> full on dedicated box.
>
> Root cause was probably organic traffic increases and the upgrade to
> nginx 1.7.0 - it let us stop using a homebuilt package and had SPDY/3
> support. 1.6.0 has it too, and seems more stable, so have switched to
> 1.6.0.
>
> I'll add some external monitoring to alert me if the proxy goes down
> and should be able to respond faster, if it happens again.
>
> Thanks!
>