[WikiEN-l] English Wikipedia brief outage today

[Ray Saintonge]

wjhonson at aol.com wrote:
> Kill the messenger!
> Does anyone have a mob of peasants with torches standing around handy?
>   
Perhaps someone will write an article about the legendary Wikipedia 
riots of April 1, 2009.

Ec

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brion Vibber <brion at wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 4:45 pm
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] English Wikipedia brief outage today
>
> An out-of-memory condition crashed the database master for English
> Wikipedia; we were down for about 25 minutes. All is restarted and
> recovered now (thanks Domas!); our other sites were not affected.
>
> http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/03/english-wikipedia-database-temporarily-down/
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
>