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dw_maintenance2011-07-27 03:17 am
denise) wrote in dw_maintenance2011-07-27 03:17 am
Crossposting to LJ
As many people have noticed, crossposting to LJ has been sort of hit-or-miss for the past few days. This is because LJ has been having some site slowness and periods of unreachability (their status page says that they're still working on restoring access for everyone).
If you get a failure message in your Dreamwidth inbox, just wait a little while, then edit the entry. Make sure the crosspost box is ticked, then save the entry again. It should re-attempt to crosspost at that time. (You may need to try a few times, or wait until access to LJ is more reliable.)
In the meantime, the site slowness last night and tonight isn't due to any sort of load -- there's been a process that gets stuck at that time of night, eating up the available CPU. We're working on figuring out what's causing the problem so that it doesn't keep happening.
EDIT: LiveJournal just posted the following statement on their status page:
So, it's likely that crossposting and importing to and from LJ will continue to be hit-or-miss, until they're able to either completely mitigate the DDoS traffic or the DDoS stops. We wish them good luck in dealing with this crap!
If you get a failure message in your Dreamwidth inbox, just wait a little while, then edit the entry. Make sure the crosspost box is ticked, then save the entry again. It should re-attempt to crosspost at that time. (You may need to try a few times, or wait until access to LJ is more reliable.)
In the meantime, the site slowness last night and tonight isn't due to any sort of load -- there's been a process that gets stuck at that time of night, eating up the available CPU. We're working on figuring out what's causing the problem so that it doesn't keep happening.
EDIT: LiveJournal just posted the following statement on their status page:
We can now publicly disclose that we have been experiencing a large-scale DDoS attack the last two days, which has been the reason for the site issues most users have been experiencing. The traffic load has been immense, at many times our normal load level, and the attack is still on-going. We are in constant contact with our providers to mitigate the attack as best as possible. We again apologize for the disruption to LiveJournal usage, and are working to get everything back to normal as soon as we can. Thank you!
So, it's likely that crossposting and importing to and from LJ will continue to be hit-or-miss, until they're able to either completely mitigate the DDoS traffic or the DDoS stops. We wish them good luck in dealing with this crap!
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