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English Wikipedia brief outage

We had a crash on our database master for English Wikipedia. Domas is restarting it and swapping it out for another master server; should be back online in a few minutes.

In the meantime, Wikipedia in other languages and all other Wikimedia sites remain unaffected.

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Update 23:39 UTC: We’re back! Looks like approximately 25 minutes of breakage.

An out-of-memory condition on the database master server ended up killing the MySQL daemon…

6 Responses to “English Wikipedia brief outage”

  1. Neurolysis says:

    Uh oh, Brion is blogging in a crisis!

  2. It just came back up for me!

  3. Simon Walker says:

    Was this error only appearing on db modifications, or on everything?

    As usual with site outages, I missed it :D

    • brion says:

      Would have hit darn near everything, but if you weren’t logged in you might not have noticed.

  4. David Gerard says:

    No donation notice? But downtime is our most lucrative product!

  5. lucasbfr says:

    Indeed. We really should add a PayPal link there :P