Monday, December 10
Wabbit Season!
I've been cursing SoftLayer's flaky hardware for the past forty minutes or so. While I was installing and updating software on Aoi, the whole system blew up, choked, died, failed to respond.
A Passmark hardware test came up clean. I logged in again after the reboot, and ran top... And realised as the session froze again that that was exactly what I had done just before the previous meltdown. My habitual wrapper script for top had a slight bug in it that had turned it into a wabbit - a fork bomb. And on a quad-core Xeon that's awaiting a shipment of memory, it doesn't take very long for a wabbit to eat you out of house and home.
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I've been cursing SoftLayer's flaky hardware for the past forty minutes or so. While I was installing and updating software on Aoi, the whole system blew up, choked, died, failed to respond.
A Passmark hardware test came up clean. I logged in again after the reboot, and ran top... And realised as the session froze again that that was exactly what I had done just before the previous meltdown. My habitual wrapper script for top had a slight bug in it that had turned it into a wabbit - a fork bomb. And on a quad-core Xeon that's awaiting a shipment of memory, it doesn't take very long for a wabbit to eat you out of house and home.
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