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The Server Fell Over (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Same, I thought it was used commonly too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

"Fell over", to me, implies server load balancing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

“Failed over” does, I’ve never heard fell over mean anything but what’s described in the picture.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I have heard it before, albeit tongue-in-cheek. So, like the server can be "running", it can also trip and fall over.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I use it to describe a variety of things, but usually it’s related to servers not being able to handle load rather than an outright crash, but I’m not strict about it. Laos balancer failures could be it, could also just be that something was really I efficient but wasn’t noticed until it went into production.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I vaguely recall a (probably apocryphal) story of an early washing machine-sized hard drive that lurched its way across the floor during a customer demo, eventually falling over once the connecting cables pulled taught.

That said, those hard drives did indeed move themselves: http://catb.org/jargon/html/W/walking-drives.html

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Some bands of old-time hackers figured out how to induce disk-accessing patterns that would do this to particular drive models and held disk-drive races.

I love the Jargon File