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We recently received notifications that Linode, our hosting provider, will be performing "Emergency Security Maintenance" as a result of the recently Disclosed Meltdown and Spectre security issues.
So far, we have been informed of maintenance windows for two of our servers: magnesium and fluorine.
There is a two hour window for these reboots starting on Friday January 12th at 10:00AM UTC. Reboots should take on the order of about 10 minutes per server.
The reboot of magnesium should cause no service disruption as it is one of our redundant front-end servers. The same cannot be said for fluorine as TheMightyBuzzard so succinctly summed it up: "slashd and site payments won't work while fluorine's down".
We have not yet received any information as to when our other systems will be rebooted -- we will keep you advised as we learn more.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 11 2018, @09:17PM (12 children)
Why in the world would it take that long to reboot?!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 11 2018, @09:22PM (2 children)
Does this mean Soylent is going to be 10% slower?
(Score: 5, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday January 11 2018, @09:38PM (1 child)
Given our database load, almost certainly. I'm not especially concerned though. I mean we cut comment rendering time by like 75% with the last big update, so we're still damned fast even with a 10% hit.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 11 2018, @09:54PM
O Mightie Uzzard, let me pay you what you deserve in compensation for your self-serving work: one ass-nugget, fresh and hot, dropped out of my inflamed anus.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 11 2018, @09:24PM
It requires work to compromise systems, I mean really you expect the NSA to work through lunch??!!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 11 2018, @09:26PM (2 children)
failure to read...
> There is a two hour window for these reboots starting on Friday January 12th at 10:00AM UTC.
> Reboots should take on the order of about 10 minutes per server.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 11 2018, @09:33PM (1 child)
Why in the world would it take that long to reboot?!
(Score: 3, Informative) by martyb on Thursday January 11 2018, @10:06PM
From the parent comment:
FTFS:
The key part of that sentence is "on the order of" as in order-of-magnitude (i.e. power of 10):
Not only does the operating system of our server get rebooted, but all of the attendant processes that rehash (the code that runs the site) depends on, such as mysql, apache, nginx, etc.
Does that help?
Wit is intellect, dancing.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday January 11 2018, @09:33PM
That's just the window when it'll be happening. It should only take a few minutes for the actual reboot. And I'll go in and tweak the load balancer so that all traffic goes to hydrogen before it happens so everyone can still get to and make use of the site though.
What won't be working during the actual reboot: comment counts will not update, messages will not be delivered, the rss/atom feeds will not update, and we won't be able to find out a payment was processed if one gets made. That's all the relevant stuff I can think of off the top of my head since most of our slashd (run on a schedule) stuff is daily and runs shortly after midnight UTC. Everything that didn't get done while fluorine is rebooting should happen shortly after it comes back up though, including payment processing.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Thursday January 11 2018, @09:57PM (3 children)
It happens in the middle of TheMightyBuzzard's nap time so we have to wait for him to bring it back up.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 11 2018, @10:06PM (2 children)
s/nap time/fishing time
FTFY
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 11 2018, @10:08PM (1 child)
s/fishing/fisting/
(Score: 4, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday January 11 2018, @11:34PM
No, fisting time is much later in the day. Usually around shower time to avoid having to spend more time washing than strictly necessary.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.