From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 23 1:14:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADB0E156D1 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 01:14:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id EAA19610; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 04:13:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 04:13:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: David Scheidt Cc: Francisco Reyes , FreeBSd Chat list Subject: Re: Will Ebay ever learn? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, David Scheidt wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Francisco Reyes wrote: > > > On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 23:35:13 -0400 (EDT), Alfred Perlstein > > wrote: > > > > I didn't know they had a few large machines running the show.. > > Which brings us back to my previous comment. > > I think they have a E10K running the whole show. > > > > > The even more interesting thing about Ebay is that I don't > > believe any of their major outages was because of hardware (at > > least that I can recall). > > At least some of the outages have been hardware failures of this E10000. > They used to have an outage information page, but I couldn't find it right > now. > > In any event, it appears they don't have a clue on how to design or run > a high availability system. That's an understatement, you don't rely on _anything_ unless you can afford a spare (or two imo). -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message