From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 22 22:29:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pop3-3.enteract.com (pop3-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CBD1214F8F for ; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 22:29:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Received: (qmail 92859 invoked from network); 23 Jul 1999 05:27:10 -0000 Received: from shell-3.enteract.com (dscheidt@207.229.143.42) by pop3-3.enteract.com with SMTP; 23 Jul 1999 05:27:10 -0000 Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 00:27:09 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt X-Sender: dscheidt@shell-3.enteract.com To: Francisco Reyes Cc: Alfred Perlstein , FreeBSd Chat list Subject: Re: Will Ebay ever learn? In-Reply-To: <199907230341.XAA18999@vulcan.addy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Francisco Reyes wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 23:35:13 -0400 (EDT), Alfred Perlstein > wrote: > > I didn't know they had a few large machines running the show.. > Which brings us back to my previous comment. I think they have a E10K running the whole show. > > The even more interesting thing about Ebay is that I don't > believe any of their major outages was because of hardware (at > least that I can recall). At least some of the outages have been hardware failures of this E10000. They used to have an outage information page, but I couldn't find it right now. In any event, it appears they don't have a clue on how to design or run a high availability system. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message