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mynxcat
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response 275 of 293:
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Sep 19 03:15 UTC 2002 |
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bhelliom
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response 276 of 293:
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Sep 19 13:44 UTC 2002 |
I understand entirely. Given how hard staff works to keep things
running, why should anyone be surprised when a staff person feels a
little annoyed and on the defensive when users seem to insinuate that
they aren't working fast enough, hard enough, or at all?
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jmsaul
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response 277 of 293:
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Sep 19 15:43 UTC 2002 |
It's kind of ironic coming from Scott, though. (Just like this is kind of
ironic coming from me.)
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pfv
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response 278 of 293:
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Sep 19 15:48 UTC 2002 |
Yeah, the staffers bust hump.. I agree
On the flipside: folks have a clue who might be staff; can see some via !w;
and sorta' expect someone might be alive. Thus, while even the ones
"in-the-know" *KNOW* the staff maillist is prolly out of hand, subconciously
they are still going to expect some "signs of life" ;-)
(in fact, results seem to often magically occur when a bbs post is made -
but other days, an email is even faster - go figure).
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davel
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response 279 of 293:
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Sep 19 20:03 UTC 2002 |
Dialing in (to 5041), repeatedly we get:
Welcome to Grex! It may take a few seconds to connect.
followed by an immediate disconnect.
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scott
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response 280 of 293:
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Sep 19 20:08 UTC 2002 |
Power problem. Grex is now back up.
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pfv
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response 281 of 293:
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Sep 19 20:19 UTC 2002 |
the dufus was back and hammered sendmail shortly after grex powered up,
too..
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russ
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response 282 of 293:
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Sep 20 02:29 UTC 2002 |
Staff DOES bust their butts to keep this thing running. I appreciate
that. But nobody appreciates being put down for something they did
not say, or failing to know something which requires insider status.
(Knowing who reads staff mail is one of those insider things.)
One thing that everyone knows is that Agora is read by more people
than the staff mailing list, so a posting here has the dual effect
of joggling elbows and notifying Grex users (who may also be affected,
but not know why or by what) that something is up.
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tsty
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response 283 of 293:
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Sep 20 08:05 UTC 2002 |
therefore, teh coop.cf .
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jazz
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response 284 of 293:
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Sep 20 13:32 UTC 2002 |
If the staff mailbox is so congested that it's difficult for
responsible staffers to be able to read and address issues, then that's a
system problem in and of itself, as well.
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pfv
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response 285 of 293:
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Sep 21 14:45 UTC 2002 |
I just wanted to say: "Thank you, Staff..".
The loads are the lowest I've seen in a looong time - between 2 and 5 today,
and under 12 yesterday.
Whatever you folks did, it sure makes grex feel "crisp".
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slynne
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response 286 of 293:
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Sep 22 13:08 UTC 2002 |
Grex is mighty speedy this morning :)
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tsty
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response 287 of 293:
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Sep 23 20:30 UTC 2002 |
44 users, load average: 14.17, 15.58, 15.85
i've been seeing loads like this - and much higher - a whoe lot
more frequenstly. once a month doesn't seem too far out of line , but
5 times a day certainnly does.
i email staff with the load average int he subject line as an fyi-of-the-moment
in case someone is semi-watching and/or do document the time/date.
is grex flodded with serious cpu users doing nifty things, or hordes
of mongols trying crash-tricks, or ... other?
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scott
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response 288 of 293:
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Sep 23 20:49 UTC 2002 |
Rest assured that staff is aware of the load averages.
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carson
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response 289 of 293:
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Sep 23 22:22 UTC 2002 |
(there also have been a number of excessive mailings, both on- and offsite,
of which TS may not be aware.)
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scott
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response 290 of 293:
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Sep 23 23:49 UTC 2002 |
Eric Bassey (other) requested more info on the load averages, and since
it's all basically a stupid situation there's no reason not to explain what's
going on:
The CPU stuff is pretty much unavoidable; basically somebody was using Grex
either to serve some p2p files or something else which caused a lot of random
people to try to connect. We're still getting a lot of failed connections
to an account which has been locked for several days as a result, and it
takes a bit of CPU to deal with each attempted to connection.
Basically we just have to wait this one out, and it has been gradually dying
off as expected.
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tsty
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response 291 of 293:
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Sep 24 05:56 UTC 2002 |
kewl - thankxx staff and carson too - i had been unaware.
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jep
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response 292 of 293:
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Sep 24 22:46 UTC 2002 |
I've been able to send mail back and forth between Grex and M-Net. Is
there really a block in place? I have all my mail forwarded to M-Net
and have exchanged e-mails with keesan over the last couple of days.
I would hope the mail capability would be restored soon, if it hasn't
been already. I understand how annoying the trash in the e-mail has
been, but the mail connection is important to some of us.
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phat3
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response 293 of 293:
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May 21 23:15 UTC 2003 |
i don't know how to use this yet.
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