geoff@utstat.uucp (Geoff Collyer) (12/24/87)
I spoke with Mike Stephenson of Genamation (the local Pyramid dealers)
this afternoon, and he reports that genat has been down for the past few
days with a broken Eagle, but repairmen are working on the Eagle now,
and genat should either be up by the end of the afternoon, or will be
down for the holidays.
If genat is down for the holidays, utzoo does not have the disk space
to hold the unsent news that is queued for genat, so genat and sites
downstream from it will lose some news.
--
Geoff Collyer utzoo!utstat!geoff, utstat.toronto.{edu,cdn}!geoffclewis@spectrix.UUCP (Chris Lewis) (12/28/87)
In article <1987Dec23.161042.2776@utstat.uucp> geoff@utstat.uucp writes: >I spoke with Mike Stephenson of Genamation (the local Pyramid dealers) >this afternoon, and he reports that genat has been down for the past few >days with a broken Eagle, but repairmen are working on the Eagle now, >and genat should either be up by the end of the afternoon, or will be >down for the holidays. Genat seems to still be down, but "gen400" (A NCR 32/400 Tower) is answering it's phone calls. Mike is trying to bring news up on it. Keep your fingers crossed. >If genat is down for the holidays, utzoo does not have the disk space >to hold the unsent news that is queued for genat, so genat and sites >downstream from it will lose some news. C-news's batcher is supposed to prevent that - it meters stuff so as to not fill up the queue. Genat won't lose anything (on utzoo's side) until utzoo starts expireing some of the articles that are queued but not batched yet. Then again, gen400 may start dropping stuff once it starts picking things up again. Lsuc is running EXTREMELY short of disk space and I have had to take drastic action (prevented uucico on inbound stuff, and commented out all C-news batching and unbatching) until expire can catch up (C-news had blown both /dev/spool and /dev/usr - 4.5Mb of *compressed* news sitting in incoming from *one* day! - C-news isn't supposed to blow disks, and I've added even more metering - don't know why this is happening). utzoo has been pumping an incredible amount of stuff. Where in hell is it all coming from? HCR seems to have been down since Dec 24th. Chewing up valuable spool space on lsuc. Sickkids seems partially stuck. Spectrix seems to have weathered most of the storm pretty well (but we're not a full feed, and we have some suspicious zero-length files lying around...). -- Chris Lewis, Spectrix Microsystems Inc, UUCP: {uunet!mnetor, utcsri!utzoo, lsuc}!spectrix!clewis Phone: (416)-474-1955
oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) (12/29/87)
In article <360@spectrix.UUCP> clewis@spectrix.UUCP (Chris Lewis) writes: > >utzoo has been pumping an incredible amount of stuff. Where in hell is >it all coming from? > >Spectrix seems to have weathered most of the storm pretty well ... >-- >Chris Lewis, Spectrix Microsystems Inc, We managed to handle the storm as well, by far the biggest I have seen. [No spool problems, only dialer overload..] It seems that for each new trick usenet sites can pull off, (faster modems, better compression, better news software etc) the volume increases at an appropriate rate. Sigh... If we only had a subscription service... oz -- Those who lose the sight Usenet: [decvax|ihnp4]!utzoo!yunexus!oz of what is really important ......!seismo!mnetor!yunexus!oz are destined to become Bitnet: oz@[yusol|yulibra|yuyetti] irrelevant. - anon Phonet: +1 416 736-5257 x 3976
mark@sickkids.UUCP (Mark Bartelt ) (12/31/87)
In article <360@spectrix.UUCP> clewis@spectrix.UUCP (Chris Lewis) writes: [ ... ] > HCR seems to have been down since Dec 24th. Chewing up valuable > spool space on lsuc. Sickkids seems partially stuck. Not stuck at all; just down for a half day getting a disk fixed, and restoring various filesystems from tape. All is back to normal now.
jeff@hcr.UUCP (Jeffrey Roberts) (01/07/88)
In article <81@sickkids.UUCP> (Mark Bartelt) writes: [ ... ] > HCR seems to have been down since Dec 24th. Chewing up valuable > spool space on lsuc. Sickkids seems partially stuck. We were never down over the holidays. Space is very limited and it may have appeared that we were down. We got a very large feed of news from Dec. 29 on. We are coping with the large volume however we are still backed up quite a bit in terms of processing it. ---- Jeffrey Roberts HCR Corporation {utzoo,utcsri,lsuc}!hcr!jeff