I type news.ycombinator.com at the URL prompt, hit Enter. Nothing happens, then in 2 to 10 seconds the URL changes to "Loading.." with a new dot appended every second. And after few more seconds it changes back to the URL input and blinking cursor. The map on top stays exactly the same - white pixel grid of the world on black.
Our system uses gearman and supervisord to manage the job queue, but didn't have systems in place to notice an exploding work queue. The job queue hit 13k at one point, which is clearly sub-optimal. We've launched 4x our normal worker count and performance on that system (and for our other customers) has recovered.
I type news.ycombinator.com at the URL prompt, hit Enter. Nothing happens, then in 2 to 10 seconds the URL changes to "Loading.." with a new dot appended every second. And after few more seconds it changes back to the URL input and blinking cursor. The map on top stays exactly the same - white pixel grid of the world on black.
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(edit) Upvote this -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5538604