Thread: Minor site issue log.

fake-name
posted on
19:50 on 13 October

This thread is where I plan to blab about any minor issues with the site that aren't major enough to warrant postings on the home page news feed.

fake-name
posted on
19:52 on 13 October

The release auto-updating system halted for about 18 hours last night, because it ran out of file handles.

Something, somewhere in the scraping system is leaking file-handles, and after running for a long period of time (3-4 days, probably several million fetched pages), it starts failing to open socket connections.

I'm not sure where the issue is, but this isn't the first time I've seen this particular failure mode, and It's really annoying, so I'll spend a bit of time looking into it in the near future.

fake-name
posted on
18:09 on 16 October

Well, a logic derp lead to removing items from a reading list not actually removing them, but rather just copying them to a list named "no-list".

Anyways, that's fixed.