Some Instability
Always fun here in server management land.
We’ve hit some instabilities recently, but so far been able to track them down. Sorry about the small bursts of downtime. If you do notice EVE-Central.com not responding, feel free to send me an e-mail just in case I haven’t noticed it yet.
For the technically curious, we’ve hit the following issues:
- Not checking ulimit -n for the gang of cherrypy servers. Ran out of file handles, didn’t recover well from that. Now we have plenty of file handles to go around
- Hit a bug in the tradefinder route planning software, which caused it to spin forever trying to compute routes to Black Rise. Once again, didn’t self-recover from that. There are still some questions on why it caused the gang of cherrypy instances to go belly up, but thats another story.
- Hit a bug in cherrypy’s own FileSession code, which could cause deadlocks. Applied a patch and we’re back in the running.
We value our visitors and want to keep EVE-Central.com going strong.
Can you also please fix the glitch in Trade Finder calculations. I’ve talked about it here “http://yannramin.com/2008/08/04/trade-tool-sell-order-compare-is-now-public/#comments”
Comment by Jimi C — August 12, 2008 @ 3:42 am