I’m trying to work out why.

[6:12 GMT] And we’re back again. Woo!

AjaxLife is currently down, as the ajaxlife.net server is currently busily running updates and such. All other services from ajaxlife.net (e.g. login screen, maps, etc.) remain available.

This should, in theory, last under an hour.

UPDATE: Email should work now. I can’t send myself mail, but sending from other addresses of mine seems to work. I need to look into this.

Just a note to anyone who might want to email me – due to server maintenence, any email you try to send to me will bounce, on the basis the mail server isn’t running. (Or even installed, for that matter).

Since SL is down, AjaxLife isn’t running, and server load is much lower. And I can work on chasing some annoying bugs too. Wee. And adding features and other fun stuff.

This post has the most categories per word on this blog. :p

Working on preventing this happening again..

I had to restart Apache while at school. However, I forgot my only means of accessing the server was via Apache. So apache stopped, and that was that.

After two hours and fifty-five minutes, I’m back. (and my server had a much needed rest)

While the server is down, TSL Profiles and *.katharineberry.co.uk. will be down. Additionally, the web functionality of the HUD Thingy will be down, and my maps will fail to rez. >.>

Thank you for your patience while we work to make things run faster and crash less.

Second Life

SL has been somewhat dull recently. But it’s getting more interesting. On a technical level, it seems to run fine, except for when network/power issues knock out 400-2000 sims. I haven’t had many issues – although the grid seems to have taken to gobbling my inventory if I log off within half an hour of picking it up. And I apparently lost some inventory from ages ago that I needed, which is annoying. That was also the first piece of inventory I noticed I had lost – so I’m hoping I haven’t lost anything else.

Cirr seems to have quit permanently with limited/no explanation. Alpha and Ming transferred on Monday (after meddling with ID because LL managed to lose it). Norn vanished without notice; I suspect he forgot about SL again. Everyone’s leaving!

On the other hand, I still have some friends. And four people have told me that they have a crush on me. Which is odd.

TSL Profiles

I have been working (sometimes) on my new(ish) website, TSL Profiles, which is… I’m not really sure what it is. But it’s something. And I’m working on it. It currently features profile (unsurprisingly), ratings, comments, in/out-SL chat, “µBlog,” a friend list, and a public API. I also intend to add a group system at some point in the not so distant future.

School

Exams are soon. I hate exams. They mean that I have to do revision, which is evil. >.>

Also, I did the AS Computing Module 3 exam yesterday. Which was easy enough, but that wasn’t remotely surprising. Two more AS Computing exams on Tuesday, then a week holiday that will be spent entirely revising, then exam week. Bleh.

School remains a waste of time filled with bullies and perverts.

Website Stuff

Very briefly:

• I fixed a bug in my stats, which now have over 10,000,000 data samples.
• This server should be getting a bit more RAM shortly.
• Updated the blog to WordPress 2.2 this morning.

Also, I’ve been completely exhausted most of the week.

On a completely unrelated note, why did Flickr send me an email informing me that “FaerieDevilish has uploaded 1 photo in the last 24.225833333333 hours?”
Is that not just a little over precise?

I’ve had it with all of you. I’d also like the (public) adult sims gone. I’d also like the idiotic noobs gone, the greedy money grabbing cheaters gone and the jerks who insist they’re superior and above the rules gone. This won’t happen, so instead I’ll withdraw from the communication more than I already had.

For your reading pleasure, here is a list of people I’m sick of, in no particular order:

• Alex Harbinger
• Rafi GKid
• Tabitha GKid
• nik385 Doesburg
• Storm Basiat
• Jay Clostermann

Here are some things I would like to go away:

• The whole intergrid commerce thing
• GK Interns (because most of them feel they are superior to everyone else because they’re involved).

I have had enough of the TG.

Unrelated sidenote: the server crashed for a few hours earlier today. The issue is being looked into.

[23:23 GMT] The `servers` table has been repaired, and the online status system is operational again.

[23:17 GMT] Hmm. Seems the MySQL server got upset – “Table './avonline/servers' is marked as crashed and should be repaired.” That’d be why the online status system is “down or overloaded.”

[22:48 GMT] It seems that the cron daemon decided not to start at boot. This has screwed up all the stats. Gah!

This server is having serious issues. Random processes have taken to segfaulting, it thinks it’s been up for a negative amount of time, and it’s apparently executing, on average, 0.08 microqueries per second. Or roughly two per year.

Daemons refuse to start for no good reason too.

This can be traced back to someone deciding it would be a good idea to screw around with /dev. I have updated the kernel and uninstalled udev. The former made the machine bootable (into something other than into a single user system), and the latter took the load average down significantly. It’s still unreasonably high though.

I have no idea what’s wrong with it, and frankly I’m tired of messing with it. Anyone have any ideas?