[Wikipedia-l] Re: Crashy opteron

[Jimmy Wales]

Damned computers.

Well, Tim is out of town.  Jason is a couple hours away and there's no
way I'm asking him to drive down on Christmas.  The colo does not have
24x7 staffing, so no one is there to reboot it for us today.

Therefore, we're doomed until tomorrow morning.  Jason has a family
obligation tomorrow at 10AM, so he _could_ go down tomorrow afternoon,
but only if we can't get someone at the colo to do the reboot.

At least the website is serving cached pages, maybe if someone has a
chance, the cached-pages message could be updated to explain the time
we expect editing to resume.

>From now on when we think about how to spend money, we should think about
this morning, and think about redundancy, which is expensive but probably
necessary as we get bigger and bigger.

--Jimbo


Brion Vibber wrote:

> While the new server is wonderfully fast, it's crashing way *way* too 
> often. :(
> 
> Has the memory been tested? What kind of warranty do we have? Will 
> Penguin replace any defective parts? How long would this take?
> 
> We *really* need a way to reboot it remotely. Somebody's going to have 
> to go in on Christmas day just to push the reset button, and that ain't 
> cool.
> 
> sigh...
> 
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)