[WikiEN-l] English Wikipedia brief outage today

[Brion Vibber]

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)
CTO, Wikimedia Foundation
San Francisco