Life In 19x19

Seems that KGS is really hosed right now.
Not only did IO get locked up, but finally KGS seems to no longer accept connections ( for a long time it was hanging ). Not only is the server down but the databse archive also seems down. Anyone knopw what's up?

The latest status posted on the KGS admin forum is that wms "is working on it"....

Uhh... freaky cat.

mw42 wrote:Uhh... freaky cat.

Akkkk... I was creating a different avatar for upload, of a more conventional cat image, which will make your comment seem strange!

KGS is ok now

Nyanjilla wrote:

mw42 wrote:Uhh... freaky cat.

Akkkk... I was creating a different avatar for upload, of a more conventional cat image, which will make your comment seem strange!

>_>

Not sure whether looking at freaky cat or conventional cat....

jts wrote:

Nyanjilla wrote:

mw42 wrote:Uhh... freaky cat.

Akkkk... I was creating a different avatar for upload, of a more conventional cat image, which will make your comment seem strange!

>_>

Not sure whether looking at freaky cat or conventional cat....

It's now the more conventional cat one. Until I change it...

There were issues. Still not sure what the root cause was, it was either that I didn't fix all problems from the crash a week ago, or because the root filesystem had filled up and made MySQL angry (the root filesystem was full, but it looked like maybe it filled up during a table repair operation, hard to say). Anyway the database became corrupted pretty bad. It is fixed now.

By the way, I hate it when the disk is broken up into lots of little partitions. The ISP did that for some reason when they initialized the disk, so now I have to always be fiddling around to keep the partitions from filling up. Why not just one huge one, that makes it so easy.

Right now the archives are failing while (fortunately) the site and server are up&running

wms wrote:By the way, I hate it when the disk is broken up into lots of little partitions. The ISP did that for some reason when they initialized the disk, so now I have to always be fiddling around to keep the partitions from filling up. Why not just one huge one, that makes it so easy.

Disc access on the inside of the disc platter is faster than access on the outside. By partitioning the drive, they can ensure that files that are very frequently accessed are on the fastest-to-access portion of the disc; they can also ensure that infrequently accessed files are stored on the outer edge of the platter.

But doing this just for the sake of doing it and without the input from the person who's going to be using the server is just silly.

AmyTS wrote:

wms wrote:By the way, I hate it when the disk is broken up into lots of little partitions. The ISP did that for some reason when they initialized the disk, so now I have to always be fiddling around to keep the partitions from filling up. Why not just one huge one, that makes it so easy.

Disc access on the inside of the disc platter is faster than access on the outside. By partitioning the drive, they can ensure that files that are very frequently accessed are on the fastest-to-access portion of the disc; they can also ensure that infrequently accessed files are stored on the outer edge of the platter.

But doing this just for the sake of doing it and without the input from the person who's going to be using the server is just silly.

How do you tell where each track is placed on the platter ?

KGS has been inaccessible for several hours now, from Rochester, Minnesota, U.S.A.
When I try to log in, the client reports connections are being refused.

Does anyone have any idea when it will be back online?

Edit: There is a page at Sensei's where several others have reported the problem.

http://senseis.xmp.net/?KGSServerStatus

Edit #2: The KGS website, including game retrieval from the archives is still working.

Confirmed by two more users. (I do not know when.)

Someone at Sensei's added this line:

18:12 GMT - The server was knocked offline by the leap second on June 30. Admins are busy celebrating Canada Day.

Although that was most likely written in jest, if my memory is correct, when a leap second was added in 2012, there were problems with the server. But, it was fixed by rebooting the server.

Edit: It is finally back up!

wms rebooted the server.

Looks fine so far....