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Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by vitorarins »

jamesmoss wrote: post #13

Is this affecting Chrome as well? Looks like it might be a bigger problem. It just crashed for three guys in our office within a few seconds of each other. Edit: Nobody was using Gmail at any point.

chrome for linux 64 bit was crashing here too.. It was blowing up my RAM.. Du'no how

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by tluyben2 »

Trufa wrote: post #203
StavrosK wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The trick is to want it to be down when you notice that it's down.

I like it, for my next hosting company: We don't have downtime, just unscheduled maintenance.

That's called Enterprise Hosting and it comes at E10k/server/month excluding bandwidth. I wish I was joking.

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by cxhristian »

untog wrote: post #172
SilasX wrote: post #140

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Wha ... how ... why would browser performance be coupled to performance of one particular site? Firefox, Opera, even IE don't crash when they're offline and unable to connect to any site.

I don't think it's Gmail, I think it's the Sync service that is causing crashes.

Yeah, I have sync enabled and using the official Gmail extension. I crashed several times not long ago.

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by modoc »

rdl wrote: post #179
modoc wrote: post #91

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Sure, but you have 8-30 minutes of annual downtime, all planned by you:) Not too bad;)

That's best-case. I have backup-mx, but no real failover for imap or normal smtp (other than reading mailspool directly on the backup mx). I used to do a crazy flood-fill thing with 3 servers smtp forwarding mail and marking it, but doing mail HA correctly is kind of hard (and then keeping mailstore synced from imap in sync, too).

Yeah. We use glusterfs to handle the IMAP sync between multiple VMs for HA IMAP. SMTP MX clustering is pretty straightforward in comparison:)

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by stcredzero »

My Chrome did not crash, yet I am logged in with Sync. Instead of keeping Gmail in a Chrome tab, I use Fluid app to make Gmail into a "desktop" app. Seems to still be up. Others can use the same workaround by opening Google apps in Firefox and Safari.
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