Ravi
Server outage
So, all my sites went down last night. I found out this morning when Sarah received an e-mail from her forum app (SMF, a brilliant wee app I highly recommend). Upon investigating further, I found that MySQL had decided to die. Attempts to resuscitate it were unsuccessful, and a quick dmesg informed me that the server had 2.7MB of physical memory free, and no swap.
Oh dear…
Glancing at top, I saw that there were many many Apache, MySQL and PHP processes open and consuming tons of memory. After some daemon genocide, my coup of memory (physical and virtual) was successful, and I was able to start serving sites again. Just how Apache et al. managed to gobble up about 700MB of memory is something of a mystery at the moment. Investigation continues…
A trip to Fife
I went to my parents house on Friday night and stayed over till Saturday morning. This really sucked, as I wanted to stay longer, but work prohibited me from doing so. Quite an uneventful visit this time, but I was introduced to a few new things. Firstly, SmartWater. This amazing little liquid was supplied by Allianz, the company who insure my cello. Basically, it’s a UV fluorescent liquid with a unique “fingerprint” marker, and is used to track stolen goods and deter thieves (with the appropriate “touch this and die!” stickers).
The second introduction was to the lovely Ravi, a fur from somewhere (New York? She’s gonna chew me out over this, I swear…) in America. My brother talks to her on Skype a lot, and they seem to be into each other quite well (no, not like that! Honestly, you and your dirty minds). I suppose it’s kinda like things between me and Rosy, they’re good friends and make each other happy. If either had the money, they’d be over visiting the other in a snap, I bet. In case you were wondering, her character is a vixen.
So, now we come onto the third item on my 3-wide list. Elfen Lied. This is an excellent anime I like almost as much as Full Metal Alchemist. It has the most amazing song on the opening titles, sort of a gregorian chant style thingme, which I’ve been playing on the piano. So yes, go and watch it. Yes, you. Go on. Or I’ll set Ravi on you. You do not want that.
I’ve got more to say, but right now my brain be fried from labs. Remind me to talk about lighters next time.
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