[OSM-talk] Server down?

[Tom Hughes]

In message <479086F7.10707 at frankieandshadow.com>
        David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:

> Has the server gone down? It stopped half way through a JOSM upload, and 
> I can't either upload, download or see web pages for www.openstreetmap.org

No it hasn't gone down. It was intermittently slow between
about 07:30 this morning and 10:30 or so when I fixed it.

This service interruption can be blaimed on :

  (a) The genius that told the db server to apply security updates
      automatically every night which led to it upgrading and
      restarting mysql at 07:35 this morning. Not sure if this is
      a standard Ubuntu feature or a choice somebody made...

  (b) The genius that wrote the Debian/Ubuntu mysql startup scripts
      and made them do a check of all the tables every time it
      starts so that it locks up tables for long periods while
      it scans them.

Tom

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