The Server Crash / Database Error

[UloDeTero]

Firstly, I'd like to formally agree with the 'PRAISE to ProgD' thread started by Phalynx. I'm sure we were all having withdrawals, and thanks to the hard work of all the guys behind the scenes we can get back to our regular fix!

That said, I can't help but wonder what caused the problem. I have no knowledge of programing, but maybe some simple explanation for us non-technical types?

But my main concern is: How do we deal with and explain such a thing in-game. Was it a Sleeping Plague that struck everyone at the same time and left as quickly as it arrived? Or was it just an unexplained anomaly that no one will ever be able to explain?

[SekoETC]

Chris Johnson said in the chat that it was because of the recent change in animals. This created masses of reports that eventually clogged the database. But a thing like this should be announced inside the game since many people don't read the forums, and even less go to the irc channel.

[Crosshair]

I try the IRC but it doesn't work for me....

[Chris Johnson]

Seko is right that I said that but what she doesn't know is that Chris Johnson was by that stage speculating randomly as to possible causes

There are still some unanswered questions as to the cause

ProgD are going to review exactly what happend and will let people know when we fully understand the cause.

[SekoETC]

Heehee, thanks for providing us with a believable answer to prevent the massacre of the Polish who surely must be invading the server space!

[Nick]

I thought it had something to do with that worm?

[Surly]

I thought Anthony had quit?

[Jos Elkink]

I thought it had something to do with that worm?

Nope, only in a very indirect sense ... (worm -> more log entries -> running faster out of disk space -> disk full -> database crash)

Database has been moved to another partition and should be fine.

[Sunni Daez]

Thanks Jos...

[Katrina]

*was hypervenilating because she couldn't check her characters*

Luff you ProgD!

[Nick]

Blood pressures worldwide are lowering.

[Phalynx]

Surely as time in game basically paused there is no need for explanation, just behave as if things never stopped....

[Crosshair]

Or it was really.... reallly.. windy and foggy. When the old server ran slow IC we always just said it was very windy so it was hard to reply right away

[Doug R.]

My charries distincly remember waking up and not being able to hear their voices, so something definately did happen. Just another good opportunity for role-play.

[notsure]

Since the problems, my daily minutes have renewed about 10 hours later than usual. Will it go back to its normal time?

notsure