Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 04:13:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com> Cc: Francisco Reyes <francisco@natserv.com>, FreeBSd Chat list <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Will Ebay ever learn? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990723041154.27774M-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.990723001548.64440A-100000@shell-3.enteract.com>
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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
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