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Some unexpected downtime this evening
!iSurf Support

Hi all!

It's been awhile. I went to do the update to the latest Friendica -rc version and had some issues. Unfortunately this -rc update has some significant database changes, so to roll back I had to restore from a snapshot I took just before attempting the upgrade.

Apologies if this affected you. I believe the next attempt at the -rc (after getting some clarifications around the issues I saw) will require some downtime in order to help it succeed, so I'll try and post an announcement about it.

All appears to be running fine again now.

Enjoy.
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Paul Sutton
Paul Sutton 3 weeks ago
No problem, keep up the good work :)

Daniel
Daniel 3 weeks ago
Thanks for letting us know!

Andy H3
Andy H3 3 weeks ago
What happened @Adam Clark ? Do you have enough information to open an issue?
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Adam Clark
Adam Clark 3 weeks ago
A low memory situation during the DB updates, and I'm not sure things completed properly.

I did get an email stating the DB updates were completed successfully, but I'm not sure I trust that. After the DB updates were done, I couldn't log in to the system and wasn't seeing anything show up as a problem in the logs.

My plan is to do the following next:

- Optimize most of the DB tables, which is running currently
- Enable Friendica debug logs
- Disable the worker cron job
- Shut down nginx, php-fpm, ejabberd
- git update + composer install
- trigger the db updates from command line
- monitor, catch useful logs at this point, etc. Hopefully everything works.

I will have to think a bit about what I'll do if I don't have enough RAM for the DB upgrades, or if the upgrades could be done with with lighter queries or something.

Andy H3
Andy H3 3 weeks ago
Sounds like a good plan. I had a noticed a memory issue too after switching to rc. There's a problem now with the background image on my login page.
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Adam Clark
Adam Clark 3 weeks ago
Is there an ongoing memory issue?

Did I see that you had posted about the background issue in @Friendica Support ?
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Andy H3
Andy H3 3 weeks ago
I optimised all tables and it's less frequent now. There it still dome errors messages coming in.
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Andy H3
Andy H3 3 weeks ago
https://forum.friendi.ca/profile/helpers?f=&page=2 opened six days ago
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Adam Clark
Adam Clark 3 weeks ago
I see your post over on forum.friendi.ca, but on social.isurf.ca I don't have anything in the support forum in the past 6 days. I wonder what might be going on.

Andy H3
Andy H3 3 weeks ago
i have a noticed something similar, comparing the number of posts on forum.friendi.ca and the ones actually coming in on my node.

I guess it's not an issue with the forum node itself. Probably related the memory issue where posts get dropped, I suspect.

I'll post over a the forum to discussed this in more detail. I will mention you and ask others to check forum posts coming on their nodes.
@Adam Clark @iSurf Support

Andy H3
Andy H3 3 weeks ago
Just saw you already posted over there. Followed up now.
@Adam Clark @iSurf Support

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