[OSM-talk] OSM outage

[Nick Hill]

The database machine has been fairly lightly loaded.

The web server has recently been misbehaving, with hard swapping. It 
appears the memory usage on the ruby module grew uncontrollably.

I have re-started apache which so far, appears to have helped.

Dean Earley wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> The OSM database appears to be down as 90% of requests seem to be 
> failing with a 500 ISE, since about 11PM last night.
> 
> It doesn't appear to by the maintenance time and last night, I seemed to 
> be able to trigger it by doing an upload. I'm not sure which bit of data 
> caused it though.
> 
> Is it something I've done or completely coincidence?
> 
> The status page says all is still ok.
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Platform_Status
> 
> Thanks
>