Brion Vibber wrote:
With space available again, I restarted the German Wikipedia dump on a new worker thread.
... and the main dump server appears to have nicely crashed again. Symptoms look like a disk or filesystem problem (anything involving disk access hangs or dies, but the machine stays on the net and accepts connections which never go anywhere). Having it rebooted; we may have to replace it.
-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)