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Buy yourselves some RamSans, man. The mountains of money Halo made you should be more than enough to justify $40/GB :v
Posted by: komark
So is this a one time thing? because for the past few days there would occasionally be like ten-minute time frames of which I experience slow forums and page errors.Should be. Usually, server performance is well-defined and entirely regular. However, there are necessary occasional tasks that are difficult to predict, often due to things like those tasks being performed by programmes written by people who left the company a decade ago (a personal favourite of mine, that one, though it's got nothing on having a server break down and having no idea where it actually, physically lives).
If those tasks take up more resources than they usually do, in this case pushing a drive beyond its capabilities, those regular tasks that happen all the time, us posting to the forums for example, go all out of whack, end up in queues they shouldn't be in, or get dropped and don't happen at all and all sorts of things.
Then you get a cascade of things that shouldn't be happening, making the original problem the proverbial needle in the haystack to track down. This is made all the more complex by the fact bungie.net is actually a collection of servers that have to talk to one another, syncing up their individual processes on the order of seconds and minutes.
Distributed systems, even relatively simple ones like b.net are a literal mind-blam!-. Hence the easiest way to fix whatever happens is just to shut. down. everything.
[Edited on 07.19.2011 7:44 PM PDT]