Westwind Posted April 14, 2014 Share Posted April 14, 2014 A couple players were able to stay logged in to the NS forums during the current downtime. I found this post funny: by Morlodania » This is boring. Someone talk to me. Okay, I'll talk to ya.EDIT: I feel like I'm the only person online right now... That's rather depressing...Edit2: So... There are between three and four players online at any given time right now... As well as between five and seven of the bots that float around... This has to be the emptyest I have ever seen the forums in my life... Probably because of the fact that the servers are screwy so no one can log in. I never logged out, so I'm still here... How glorious.Edit3: Wait... This means I have the WHOLE forums to myself... I... I could be so evil... I could do anything... So much power... Ah, screw it, I'm just gonna make a mess of everything by gluing all the furniture to the ceiling, and making everything look like the forums are LITERALLY upside down.Edit4: So... It's been FOUR hours of NS being crashed now... This is getting to the point where it's crazy. I've run out of things to mess with.Edit5: Approaching the 5 hour mark... I'm so lonely in here... Error Something went seriously wrong. Technical Support You have T minus three minutes to reach minimum safe distance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
God-Emperor Posted April 14, 2014 Share Posted April 14, 2014 Any word on the cause? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westwind Posted April 15, 2014 Author Share Posted April 15, 2014 No, except that it appears to have happened a few days ago too, but wasn't caught for awhile this time. Sleepy NS admins....or busy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
God-Emperor Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Or both. I got a PM when it went down last time, but it was back up before I got on. Just odd it happenin' twice in almost as many days. Perty odd... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Consular Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Poor Morlodania, must have been awfully lonesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westwind Posted April 15, 2014 Author Share Posted April 15, 2014 From [violet] The game server has gone down twice in the past week for significant periods of time due to a bug in the sessions manager. There is a race condition that means it's possible for the sessions manager to query itself, which deadlocks the process and leaves the rest of the site unable to communicate with it. The sessions manager is an essential part of the site and gameside doesn't work without it. The forums stay up but with no sidebar and no logins.This bug has been around for years but for some reason has only triggered recently. I have written a fix but it's still in local testing. Should arrive in the next 24 hours. In the meantime, there is a new utility that checks on the sessions manager every so often and restarts it if it seems to be deadlocked.Admin does get auto-notifications via email when the site goes down, but depending on the time of day there isn't always someone around to deal with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westwind Posted April 16, 2014 Author Share Posted April 16, 2014 [violet]: New code is in, which should eliminate that bug.And introduce new ones, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Consular Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Heh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
God-Emperor Posted April 22, 2014 Share Posted April 22, 2014 I was hopin' it was down to test a new Sinker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westwind Posted April 22, 2014 Author Share Posted April 22, 2014 Heh... I have been surprised at how many took that concept seriously. But who knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
God-Emperor Posted April 22, 2014 Share Posted April 22, 2014 Not I, obviously. Now PM me back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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