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4 November 2006

6:26

My server is a very strange fellow. At 6:26 on some mornings the web servers stops and has to be restarted. I wrote a thingy to check it and restart whenever it needed it, and I started to notice that it happened at exactly 6:26. It isn't every morning. But sometimes it is several mornings in a row. But since it's only once a day I guess it isn't the end of the world. I'm trying to think what one minute a day of downtime does to the to the implicit SLA I have with blogfeed readers and bloggers.

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  1. There is a SLA now?

    David / 4:39pm / 4 November 2006

  2. No.

    Ryan / 9:20am / 5 November 2006

  3. Oh.. But it causes me emotional distress when blogfeed is down…

    It’s such a nice website. Though it doesn’t cause me as much distress as when slashdot or digg is down.

    David / 5:00pm / 5 November 2006

  4. What’s extra weird is that my new server using a new version of Ubuntu in a different country is having the same problem?

    Ryan / 1:08pm / 14 September 2007

  5. Actually, it isn’t that weird. Cron starts at 6:25 every day, so it probably inadvertently restarts it somehow.

    Ryan / 1:13pm / 14 September 2007

  6. I worked it out I think.

    logrotate runs once a day and reloads lighttpd each time. I suspect that when the clocks are in sync across the two machines it checks lighttpd at the same time as it’s reloading. Strange problem.

    Ryan / 7:12pm / 14 October 2007

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