*Is super detective*
Y'know how the pics have been acting up?
From Lj maintenance:
"Pics and userpics slow... here's why
You've probably noticed that userpics and scrapbook photos are incredibly slow.
The reason it's sucking is because we're temporarily running with about one third our normal number of media storage disks during this move. While we have enough storage capacity (what you see on your computer as "This drive is 90% full, only 10GB remaining"), we don't have enough spindles, that is --- the drives are too frickin' busy moving around trying to load userpics that they can't keep up with all the new incoming requests for other people's userpics (namely that one you probably see hanging, unloaded on your friends page right now). Having more disks spreads this load out.
The rest get shipped up Monday, probably online Monday night or Tuesday, along with a bunch of other hardware.
In the meantime we're going disk shopping today, buying a ton of disks, trying to fix this before tonight.
So that's what up."
Comment on the entry:
"I'm wondering if you can explain why some userpics are being randomly changed. For example, one icon of mine was Vincent last night and then it changed to some picture of sand on a beach?"
Reply:
"About 1,200 new userpics uploaded during our maintenance got messed up, due to a fuck-up on our part. Most people have already deleted the broken ones and re-uploaded."
From Lj maintenance:
"Pics and userpics slow... here's why
You've probably noticed that userpics and scrapbook photos are incredibly slow.
The reason it's sucking is because we're temporarily running with about one third our normal number of media storage disks during this move. While we have enough storage capacity (what you see on your computer as "This drive is 90% full, only 10GB remaining"), we don't have enough spindles, that is --- the drives are too frickin' busy moving around trying to load userpics that they can't keep up with all the new incoming requests for other people's userpics (namely that one you probably see hanging, unloaded on your friends page right now). Having more disks spreads this load out.
The rest get shipped up Monday, probably online Monday night or Tuesday, along with a bunch of other hardware.
In the meantime we're going disk shopping today, buying a ton of disks, trying to fix this before tonight.
So that's what up."
Comment on the entry:
"I'm wondering if you can explain why some userpics are being randomly changed. For example, one icon of mine was Vincent last night and then it changed to some picture of sand on a beach?"
Reply:
"About 1,200 new userpics uploaded during our maintenance got messed up, due to a fuck-up on our part. Most people have already deleted the broken ones and re-uploaded."