FeedLounge Acting “Funny”

This morning I discovered that the web server for the ‘Lounge (my.feedlounge.com) had gone down and not restarted properly. This is the first time this has happened since January, and the hits have just kept on coming all day long.

As soon as the ‘Lounge was brought back online, we started getting reports FeedLounge acting “funny”: feed items not loading properly, non-matching unread counts for feeds and strangeness with the items returned for some feeds (read/unread status being off, etc.).

After a day of debugging, Scott traced the problem to (what looks like) corrupt memcached data.

The good news (if you can call it that) is that the “real” data in the databases seems to be fine - it’s only the cached data that is out of whack.

We’re trying to find a way to fix this without requiring a clearing of the cached data, because if we have to clear the cache performance will suffer for a few days while the cache repopulates.

More news as we have it.