[Lispweb] The Common Lisp Directory finally crashed after 823 days.

[Robert Synnott]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Marc Battyani
<marc.battyani at fractalconcept.com> wrote:
> [Is this list still somewhat alive?]
>
>  The Common Lisp Directory (http://www.cl-user.net) lisp process crashed
>  yesterday after 823 days of continuous service.
>
>  In these 2 years and 93 days, the same lisp process (LispWorks on Linux
>  Debian) served 273M requests without any problem. Even the crash was not
>  really lisp's fault as it was caused by a swap disk problem which caused
>  the kernel to kill a lot of processes.
>
>  During these 823 days, I had to restart Apache every few months and the
>  firewall router every several days. I also got several electric power
>  outages but fortunately none longer than the 3h of UPS battery time.
>  BTW this shows than Debian is also a stable platform for this kind of
>  applications.
>
>  So the CLD lisp process uptime experiment is now over and I will move
>  the CLD to a better place than a simple server in my basement.
>
>  Marc
>
>
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Well done!

A new record, I suspect.

As a matter of interest, does it use one of the standard servers, or
did you roll your own?
Rob

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