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Outage today (2023-07-31) from 02:00 UTC - 05:45 UTC (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by ruud@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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Lemmy.world has been down between 02:00 UTC and 05:45 UTC. This was caused by the database spiking to 100% cpu (all 32 cores/64 threads!) due to inefficient queries been fired to the db very often.

I’ve collected the logs and we’ll be checking how to prevent this. (And what caused this)

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[-] ttmrichter@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago

(And what caused this)

Prediction: bad database programming. ;)

[-] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

Are we extracting enough value out of our volunteer developers and DBAs?!

[-] ewe@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

The beatings will continue until morale improves!

[-] MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Or clever denial of service attacks

this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2023

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