[admin]

We had to take down the forums to perform some unexpected database management from about 9am - 1pm CDT today.

MySQL has a known "table full" issue when a table reaches 4GB. We thought running 64-bit software we'd be unaffected, but this morning we exceeded the maximum number of rows allowed by a table, and that prevented people from posting. It appears only one post was lost and that person has been notified.

It was corrected by running a backup and then an SQL command:

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mysql> ALTER TABLE ibf_posts MAX_ROWS=1000000000 AVG_ROW_LENGTH=3411;
Query OK, 1259009 rows affected, 3 warnings (1 hour 26 min 57.10 sec)
Records: 1259009 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0

Thanks for your understanding and patience as we resolved this issue.

Your Geeks to Go admin team

[jt1990]

No prob!

[Rorschach112]

I did some baking while the forum was down

Turned out beautiful

[Chopin]

Well, at least it's back up

[dsenette]

being the day before the fourth i just figured you had a little TUI (tinkering under the influence) hehe

[BHowett]

Nothing wrong with a few hours off I 'm just glad you got it sorted

[Mike]

Thanks for the hard work,

Sari and I were debating whether to get you a cold beer, or a trip to a beer factory in Germany

*Mike thinks the latter would be better.