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Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | Airline Operations | Server Downtime February 8th
DVA043
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP

Joined on June 10 2001
Event Half Century Club
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Everett 1500 Club
Bi-Millennium Club
Four Million Mile Club

"Col. Panic"
Marietta, GA

2,347 legs, 9,466.0 hours
240 legs, 553.9 hours online
2,005 legs, 8,259.1 hours ACARS
75 legs, 196.3 hours event
2,383 legs, 9,600.9 hours total
91 legs dispatched, 66.4 hours
Posted onPost created on February 07 2022 21:58 ET by Luke Kolin
The site will be going down for approximately 60 to 180 minutes tomorrow as we migrate from AWS US-East-1 in Virginia to US-East-2 in Ohio, as well as to an upgraded ARM64 quad-core machine. This should be as simple as snapshotting the data volume and moving it over, but nothing is ever simple. I expect downtime to start around 8AM ET and be over within a few hours.

Apologies for the inconvenience, but we should have a faster server as well as not dealing with the legacy crud that's in US-East-1.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11
DVA12617
Chief Pilot, A350-900
OLP, VFRADV
DISPATCHER
E-MAIL

Joined on April 23 2015
B757 100 Club
Eurocap Club
Millennium Club
Toulouse 500 Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Online Quadruple Century Club

"Go Utes!"
Herriman, UT

1,322 legs, 3,057.1 hours
432 legs, 896.0 hours online
1,303 legs, 3,014.9 hours ACARS
25 legs, 78.6 hours event
39 legs dispatched, 174.2 hours
Posted onPost created on February 07 2022 22:25 ET by Joe Burner
Luke,

Sounds good. Thank you for the advanced notice. smile



DVA7846
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP

Joined on September 25 2009
US Capital Club
50 State Club
Stock Car Racing Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Online Triple Century Club
Quincentenary Club
Events Century Club
Everett 250 Club

"It is what it is!"
Wake Forest, NC

569 legs, 1,264.7 hours
399 legs, 805.1 hours online
561 legs, 1,251.4 hours ACARS
105 legs, 243.5 hours event
87 legs dispatched, 175.9 hours
Posted onPost created on February 08 2022 06:59 ET by Kevin Hornaday
Crossing fingers (not wires) for a smooth transition!
DVA057
Senior Captain, B777-200
COMM

Joined on June 02 2002
Events Century Club
Six Century Club
Online Quintuple Century Club
Everett 500 Club
50 State Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary

"We Are ... Penn State!"
Atlanta, GA USA

672 legs, 1,338.4 hours
531 legs, 1,076.4 hours online
392 legs, 786.1 hours ACARS
190 legs, 406.3 hours event
Posted onPost created on February 08 2022 10:02 ET by Terry Eshenour
Luke,
Thanks for the notice. I logged on at 9:30 am without issue. I assume it was seamless. Unsure about DVA email. I didn’t receive the morning slug of spam.
How do we know performance is improved?
Regards,
Terry

Terry Eshenour

Senior Captain, B777-200
DVA043
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP

Joined on June 10 2001
Event Half Century Club
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Everett 1500 Club
Bi-Millennium Club
Four Million Mile Club

"Col. Panic"
Marietta, GA

2,347 legs, 9,466.0 hours
240 legs, 553.9 hours online
2,005 legs, 8,259.1 hours ACARS
75 legs, 196.3 hours event
2,383 legs, 9,600.9 hours total
91 legs dispatched, 66.4 hours
Posted onPost created on February 08 2022 16:01 ET by Luke Kolin
Terry Eshenour wrote:

How do we know performance is improved?


I've noticed that expensive operations are completing quicker. I'll need to look at the NewRelic numbers under load in the late afternoons to see the improvement, or at least the slowest transactions.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11
DVA057
Senior Captain, B777-200
COMM

Joined on June 02 2002
Events Century Club
Six Century Club
Online Quintuple Century Club
Everett 500 Club
50 State Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary

"We Are ... Penn State!"
Atlanta, GA USA

672 legs, 1,338.4 hours
531 legs, 1,076.4 hours online
392 legs, 786.1 hours ACARS
190 legs, 406.3 hours event
Posted onPost created on February 08 2022 16:17 ET by Terry Eshenour
I stopped receiving NewRelic weekly reports. Could you check into that if you need to renew settings?

Terry Eshenour

Senior Captain, B777-200
DVA9792
Senior Captain, B737-800
OLP

Joined on May 20 2011
50 State Club
B757 100 Club
Globetrotter
Commuter Conquest
Everett Quad-Millennium Club
US Mountaineer Club
US Coastal Club
Events Millennium Club
Ten Million Miles and Beyond
Eight Millennium Club
Online Eighty Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

Cripple Creek, CO

11,075 legs, 32,219.6 hours
10,563 legs, 30,943.9 hours online
10,967 legs, 31,876.5 hours ACARS
1,535 legs, 4,172.7 hours event
0 legs dispatched, 2.3 hours
Posted onPost created on February 09 2022 09:58 ET by Jim Rose
Web page loading times for me can reach 10-13 seconds after this migration. Is this isolated? Are there some settings I should attempt to change? I currently use a Firefox browser but the same behavior is present on Edge as well.

Jim Rose

Senior Captain, B737-800
DVA043
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP

Joined on June 10 2001
Event Half Century Club
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Everett 1500 Club
Bi-Millennium Club
Four Million Mile Club

"Col. Panic"
Marietta, GA

2,347 legs, 9,466.0 hours
240 legs, 553.9 hours online
2,005 legs, 8,259.1 hours ACARS
75 legs, 196.3 hours event
2,383 legs, 9,600.9 hours total
91 legs dispatched, 66.4 hours
Posted onPost created on February 09 2022 10:04 ET by Luke Kolin
Terry Eshenour wrote:

I stopped receiving NewRelic weekly reports. Could you check into that if you need to renew settings?


I think that's because their free tier only allows a single user account. I'll forward them as I get them.

Jim Rose wrote:

Web page loading times for me can reach 10-13 seconds after this migration. Is this isolated? Are there some settings I should attempt to change? I currently use a Firefox browser but the same behavior is present on Edge as well.


That feels like a network issue. I'm pulling around 1.5s in my tests: https://www.webpagetest.org/result/220209_BiDc3F_CKY/

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11
DVA9792
Senior Captain, B737-800
OLP

Joined on May 20 2011
50 State Club
B757 100 Club
Globetrotter
Commuter Conquest
Everett Quad-Millennium Club
US Mountaineer Club
US Coastal Club
Events Millennium Club
Ten Million Miles and Beyond
Eight Millennium Club
Online Eighty Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

Cripple Creek, CO

11,075 legs, 32,219.6 hours
10,563 legs, 30,943.9 hours online
10,967 legs, 31,876.5 hours ACARS
1,535 legs, 4,172.7 hours event
0 legs dispatched, 2.3 hours
Posted onPost created on February 09 2022 18:30 ET by Jim Rose
OK, thanks for the quick response

Jim Rose

Senior Captain, B737-800
DVA043
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP

Joined on June 10 2001
Event Half Century Club
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Everett 1500 Club
Bi-Millennium Club
Four Million Mile Club

"Col. Panic"
Marietta, GA

2,347 legs, 9,466.0 hours
240 legs, 553.9 hours online
2,005 legs, 8,259.1 hours ACARS
75 legs, 196.3 hours event
2,383 legs, 9,600.9 hours total
91 legs dispatched, 66.4 hours
Posted onPost created on February 11 2022 10:13 ET by Luke Kolin
Jim, are you still having issues?

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11
DVA9792
Senior Captain, B737-800
OLP

Joined on May 20 2011
50 State Club
B757 100 Club
Globetrotter
Commuter Conquest
Everett Quad-Millennium Club
US Mountaineer Club
US Coastal Club
Events Millennium Club
Ten Million Miles and Beyond
Eight Millennium Club
Online Eighty Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

Cripple Creek, CO

11,075 legs, 32,219.6 hours
10,563 legs, 30,943.9 hours online
10,967 legs, 31,876.5 hours ACARS
1,535 legs, 4,172.7 hours event
0 legs dispatched, 2.3 hours
Posted onPost created on February 11 2022 10:18 ET by Jim Rose
The load time is now down to 3-4 secs for me. So the ISP had no answers and couldn't find anything anomalous. Thank you for continuing to troubleshoot and check back. It is better!

Jim Rose

Senior Captain, B737-800
DVA043
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP

Joined on June 10 2001
Event Half Century Club
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Everett 1500 Club
Bi-Millennium Club
Four Million Mile Club

"Col. Panic"
Marietta, GA

2,347 legs, 9,466.0 hours
240 legs, 553.9 hours online
2,005 legs, 8,259.1 hours ACARS
75 legs, 196.3 hours event
2,383 legs, 9,600.9 hours total
91 legs dispatched, 66.4 hours
Posted onPost created on February 11 2022 10:27 ET by Luke Kolin
What's interesting is that there's a 34ms ping to your IP from the server, so it's not a network connectivity issue. I wonder if my reverse DNS is slow.... I don't think I coped the settings for DNS caching from the old server.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11
DVA9792
Senior Captain, B737-800
OLP

Joined on May 20 2011
50 State Club
B757 100 Club
Globetrotter
Commuter Conquest
Everett Quad-Millennium Club
US Mountaineer Club
US Coastal Club
Events Millennium Club
Ten Million Miles and Beyond
Eight Millennium Club
Online Eighty Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

Cripple Creek, CO

11,075 legs, 32,219.6 hours
10,563 legs, 30,943.9 hours online
10,967 legs, 31,876.5 hours ACARS
1,535 legs, 4,172.7 hours event
0 legs dispatched, 2.3 hours
Posted onPost created on February 11 2022 14:11 ET by Jim Rose
Navigating pages on the site more quickly than ever now. Whatever was just done has resolved the issue. Thank you!

Jim Rose

Senior Captain, B737-800
Progress Spinner


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