Title: HN was down today for around 2 hours.  Sorry about that.<p>The News server currently crashes a couple times a day when it runs out of memory.  All the comments and stories no longer fit in the 2 GB we can get on a 32 bit machine.  We'd been planning to upgrade to a new 64 bit server.  In the meantime it was arguably a rather slow form of GC.<p>Unfortunately the process somehow got wedged in the middle of segfaulting.  We're not sure why and will probably never know. But that meant the process that usually notices when News is wedged and restarts it was unable to kill it.<p>Fortunately rebooting the machine solved the problem.  But now we'll presumably be switching to that new, bigger server sooner rather than later.<p>As far as I can tell it was a coincidence that this happened today.  It doesn't seem to have been caused either by the increased traffic, or the excessive number of posts about Erlang.
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