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Date:      Sun, 05 Jul 1998 11:21:12 -0700
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: something screwed with CVSup.freebsd.org?
Message-ID:  <199807051821.LAA18346@austin.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980705094114.25727D-100000@opus.cts.cwu.edu>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980705094114.25727D-100000@opus.cts.cwu.edu>

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In article <Pine.BSF.3.96.980705094114.25727D-100000@opus.cts.cwu.edu>,
Chris Timmons  <skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu> wrote:
> 
> It appears that the avalanche of repository tagging at least contributed
> to a situation in which freefall was unable to keep up with the load.
> I'll let jdp explain when he figures out what really happened.

Freefall became ill and a bunch of cvsupd processes ended up hung in D
state, unkillable by any means.  This caused the master cvsupd process
to stop accepting clients, because its access limits were already
maxxed out.

We did a remote reboot of freefall, but unfortunately it did not make
it back up again.  It responds to pings but none of the daemons have
started, including sshd.  The operative hypothesis is that it is hung
up waiting on an NFS mount from a machine that's down.

It is a holiday weekend here in the US, and we haven't been able to
find anybody physically near to the machines who could go in and get
things running again.  So we are without freefall at least for a
while.

Maybe this would be a good day to get a life and try doing something
else for a change. :-)
--
   John Polstra                                       jdp@polstra.com
   John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                Seattle, Washington USA
   "Self-knowledge is always bad news."                 -- John Barth

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