Mark Smith (
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dw_maintenance2011-04-24 10:18 am
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slowness/downtime
Hi all,
In the past 24 hours we've had some periods of slowness and outright downtime.
fu and I have managed to track it down to a single community that has a comment thread that causes our Apache workers to go into an infinite loop. After enough refreshes, all of our workers are dead, and the site no longer responds.
We're going to start looking into fixing the code so that this doesn't happen. Meanwhile, we're going to work with this community to make sure that they can't break the site while we get an actual, proper code fix working.
Thank you all for your patience as we sort this out.
In the past 24 hours we've had some periods of slowness and outright downtime.
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We're going to start looking into fixing the code so that this doesn't happen. Meanwhile, we're going to work with this community to make sure that they can't break the site while we get an actual, proper code fix working.
Thank you all for your patience as we sort this out.
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I count that as a net win. :)
Seriously! We do not blame you guys! We do not blame anybody. The problem was there, whether or not we knew about it. Whenever you're dealing with edge cases or people using the site in a way that is way outside the way that most other people use it, there's always the chance for bugs to crop up, because nobody has ever tested those particular combinations. It's why there are always bugs that don't show up until we push code live, because our users use the site in ways we never would have dreamed, much less tested.
So do not feel like a moron! Feel like somebody who just contributed to making DW better for everybody, because you totally did. :)
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Uh. Good thing it's Three Weeks, so my shame and related Issues aren't allowed to drive me away from the site for a month or so to recover? I have obligations. ^^;;
And, uh. I was going to buy a seed account anyway, 'cause apart from this whole breaking it thing I do love this site like burning - but instead of waiting to see if I can nab one I'm gonna go buy the DW points now, so even if I don't get one you guys get my support.
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And yeah, Three Weeks obligations, so. Around anyway.