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Same here.

Yes, there was some crying on facebook

I was waiting for the outpour of grief to start trending on twitter but nothing.

That's pretty much it.

I start by trying to log on to things and checking all the monitors... but what I generally find is that when it all starts going to hell, the monitors are part of what is making it go to hell... the more the system degrades, more alerts are fired that drag the system down.

Then, if it's take more than 10 minutes (rare), I consider turning off the front-end load balancers so that the backends can recover.

If it's taken more than 15 minutes... I start rebooting boxes. Not the database one, but the web servers which tend to start firing memkill and nuking processes I care about.

Today involved 3 of the 4 web servers getting kicked in the teeth.

Can you please merge this
http://www.lfgss.com/thread85852.html

in to this
http://www.lfgss.com/thread78416-2.html

Thanks

No.

They appear to be about different things and are both in the appropriate forums for their topic.

Can you do something clever with DRA to push resources to your monitoring tool when something pukes?

Every time that happens, I imagine DK like this:

radius?

Can you do something clever with DRA to push resources to your monitoring tool when something pukes?

I'm in the process of puppet-ing the LFGSS servers, and part of that is selecting different (better) monitoring technology to prevent the kind of lock-ups I've been seeing.

http://www.lfgss.com/thread85871.html#post2892823
With the football thread.

I'm aware I could click ignore but this would fail to enrage pisti. Which would be less fun.

In fact please merge:
http://www.lfgss.com/thread7140.html
http://www.lfgss.com/thread85871.html
http://www.lfgss.com/thread14435.html

Then Pisti isn't the thread starter either, and can't close it like last time.

But still call it football.

I just came in here to ask for that.

No please leave the Euro 2008 unmerged thread. I like it how it is!

Can you start a bootball/soccer subforum so that I can ignore it properly rather than having to ignore each new thread which is started.

Can you also ban Cliveo before he starts complaining.

It's about 6 Football related threads created for every ten years. I think you can manage.

Well yeah, that would be the other option, a football subforum under misc. But I doubt that would happen.

There are plenty of people who don't really follow Football other than at international tournaments and world cups.

Exactly. That's 18 mouse clicks you bastards have forced upon me. Just think of the time I'd have saved. I could have changed the world with that time.

Don't forget about the keystrokes you've had to make.

Haha. There are loooads of threads on the forum that I have no interest in. To go around ignoring them all would take all day. I only post in Football and House Music these days anyway.

But really the merging on LFGSS has been overzealous for ages.. The place has about 20 threads continually re-bumped .. and chances are the same people post in the same threads - result is it looks stale. When I check it at the end of the day I want to see something new.

Well yeah, that would be the other option, a football subforum under misc. But I doubt that would happen.

No need for that. One thread per tournament isn't going to kill anyone.

I can feel myself slipping off this mortal coil as I type...

It's about 6 Football related threads created for every ten years. I think you can manage.

There are plenty of people who don't really follow Football other than at international tournaments and world cups.

I agree with this.

Not merged.

Unless hippy doesn't read this and merges without thinking about it.

Don't forget about the keystrokes you've had to make.

The fucking keystrokes. I hadn't even considered that.
Cancer would have been cured. Aids abolished. The gays finally rounded up and arrested. All you're football threads are damaging humanity.