And she's back.

As part of the effort to bring you the shiniest conversation in town, I'm bringing the server down for a backup tonight.  Also expect some rebooting action in the near future.

But for now--as of 12:20am Friday, May 23rd, a backup will be taking place.

b.org is very very slow.

Right now, the load average on www.buffistas.org is about 30, and is spending about 95% of its time in an iowait state (waiting for disk read and writes). There is no free memory on the system, and it is swapping like crazy -- the system is thrashing.

Buffistas.org will be going down for a version upgrade at 10pm PDT Saturday the 10th of May. Shouldn't be more than an hour.