Some of you may have noticed a forum outage.
@exxos is aware and between the admins, service has been restored.
Not sure what the ultimate root cause is, it could have been an attack, but we do know some processes ran out of memory
Be aware it will be looked at.
Can all registered uses please login, even just for a few minutes..
It helps build a picture where our "good traffic" is coming from..
Thanks :)
It helps build a picture where our "good traffic" is coming from..
Thanks :)
Forum Outage
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rubber_jonnie
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Forum Outage
Collector of many retro things!
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
Re: Forum Outage
I will look when I get back home tonight.
The only clue so far seems to be the server ran out of RAM. But it's got like 2GB free... I think the issue actually started somewhere just before midnight.
I was doing some updates on Thursday but I had to abandon them because I had to fix our toilet
The only clue so far seems to be the server ran out of RAM. But it's got like 2GB free... I think the issue actually started somewhere just before midnight.
I was doing some updates on Thursday but I had to abandon them because I had to fix our toilet
Re: Forum Outage
Yep, saw that earlier this morning...was coming up with a 503 error IIRC.
Glad it's back - and a big thank you to all admins and @exxos for their continued efforts to provide such a great forum for us!
Glad it's back - and a big thank you to all admins and @exxos for their continued efforts to provide such a great forum for us!
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rubber_jonnie
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Re: Forum Outage
You're welcomeJezC wrote: Sun Jul 27, 2025 12:19 pm Yep, saw that earlier this morning...was coming up with a 503 error IIRC.
Glad it's back - and a big thank you to all admins and @exxos for their continued efforts to provide such a great forum for us!
Collector of many retro things!
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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stephen_usher
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Re: Forum Outage
On modern OSs I'm not tsure you can print "Hello world!" if you "only" have 2GB free.exxos wrote: Sun Jul 27, 2025 12:12 pm The only clue so far seems to be the server ran out of RAM. But it's got like 2GB free... I think the issue actually started somewhere just before midnight.
Intro retro computers since before they were retro...
ZX81->Spectrum->Memotech MTX->Sinclair QL->520STM->BBC Micro->TT030->PCs & Sun Workstations.
Added code to the MiNT kernel (still there the last time I checked) + put together MiNTOS.
Collection now with added Macs, Amigas, Suns and Acorns.
ZX81->Spectrum->Memotech MTX->Sinclair QL->520STM->BBC Micro->TT030->PCs & Sun Workstations.
Added code to the MiNT kernel (still there the last time I checked) + put together MiNTOS.
Collection now with added Macs, Amigas, Suns and Acorns.
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rubber_jonnie
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Re: Forum Outage
Try running Windows 11 on 2GB, you'll fail before you get started..stephen_usher wrote: Sun Jul 27, 2025 1:23 pmOn modern OSs I'm not tsure you can print "Hello world!" if you "only" have 2GB free.exxos wrote: Sun Jul 27, 2025 12:12 pm The only clue so far seems to be the server ran out of RAM. But it's got like 2GB free... I think the issue actually started somewhere just before midnight.
Collector of many retro things!
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
Re: Forum Outage
It seems my stats program used about 2GB RAM and Linux killed it.. Then acted like a machine gun randomly killing other running processes I've disabled the program for now..
I've disabled the program for now..