Saturday, December 24, 2011

Little something for those still here on Christmas Eve :)

Our version of Christmas Eve *cough* "fail over testing".

Although only a lose connection to Django (prod boxes ran django webapps) - I'm sure most of you will appreciate this.


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‎(04:42:52) foxx/sleepycal: right, f**k this
(04:42:58) foxx/sleepycal: its 4.42am
(04:43:04) foxx/sleepycal: theres only one logical course of action
(04:43:08) foxx/sleepycal: kmem roulette.
(04:43:12) Chris: lol
(04:43:13) foxx/sleepycal: you fire up 3 production boxes
(04:43:18) foxx/sleepycal: ill fire up 3 production boxes
(04:43:30) foxx/sleepycal: whoever makes kern panic first, wins.
(04:43:34) foxx/sleepycal: one go each
(04:43:37) Chris: lmao
(04:43:38) foxx/sleepycal: >> dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/kmem bs=1 count=1 seek=$RANDOM
(04:43:40) foxx/sleepycal: you in?
(04:43:44) Chris: absolutely
(04:43:49) foxx/sleepycal: k - teamviewer
(04:47:40) foxx/sleepycal: 
root@meisje [/home/foxx] > while true ; do dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/kmem bs=1 count=1 seek=$RANDOM && sleep 1 ; done 
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1 byte (1 B) copied, 2.9599e-05 s, 33.8 kB/s
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1 byte (1 B) copied, 2.0429e-05 s, 49.0 kB/s
(04:47:41) foxx/sleepycal: and now, we wait.

(no servers were harmed in the making of these luls.)

Happy holidays everyone!

Cal

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