Archive for September, 2008
Socorro Database Migration
In our last post we described one of our Q4 goals as: work with PostgreSQL to update and optimize our hardware and software configurations Aravind has gone ahead and migrated the Socorro database to its new hardware and we've upgraded PostgreSQL to 8.3 in order to take advantage of performance optimizations that went into the most recent release. We've also updated the configuration so xlogs and logs are written to a different data store than the main database. Unfortunately this required a full migration over the weekend, which required some downtime. This morning we are running a full vacuum which ... Read More »
The Crashing Edge
This will be the first of a weekly blog about the crash reporting system -- much like the other *edge blogs out there. In short, we've rewritten most of the system to accomodate throughput that is more than 10 times the projected traffic. It is not because Firefox 3 is crashing more -- we are seeing increased traffic because: Client-side throttling has not been effective Overall number of users has increased Mac Intel builds now submit crashes properly What have we been up to? First, two bug lists: Bugs closed between the last blog post and now Socorro 0.6 -- our next milestone, targeted for early ... Read More »
AMO Statistics and CDN Update
We will be adjusting log collection to work with our CDN tonight during a maintenance window. We can't guarantee that developer statistics (download counts and update pings) will be 100% continuous -- so please comment here or file a bug if you see anything strange. Thanks for your help! Read More »
