wiki.rubyonrails.org was down

September 12, 2008 at 10:26 pm · Filed under Passenger, Ruby on Rails

Today wiki.rubyonrails.org was briefly down, for like 30 minutes or so.

I thought it might be a problem in Phusion Passenger, seeing that the wiki is running on it. I wanted to the restart Apache, but I decided to look in the wiki log files before doing that.

It turned out the server ran out of disk space. I truncated the Apache log files, which were consuming 40 GB or so. After that, everything went back to normal.

2 Comments »

  1. Geoffrey Grosenbach said,

    September 13, 2008 @ 12:11 am

    So it was a logrotate issue?

  2. Hongli said,

    September 13, 2008 @ 12:40 am

    There is no log rotation setup.

RSS feed for comments on this post · TrackBack URI

Leave a Comment