Residential ISP log data from the east coast US Mark: if you're reading this I need you to get right on this issue please. (Thanks!) # whois.ripe.net inetnum: 31.13.64.0 - 31.13.127.255 netname: IE-FACEBOOK-20110418 country: IE org: ORG-FIL7-RIPE admin-c: NE1880-RIPE tech-c: NE1880-RIPE status: ALLOCATED PA mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT mnt-by: meta-mnt mnt-routes: fb-neteng created: 2011-04-18T12:00:34Z last-modified: 2022-10-29T00:51:39Z source: RIPE # Filtered organisation: ORG-FIL7-RIPE org-name: META PLATFORMS IRELAND LIMITED country: IE org-type: LIR address: 4 GRAND CANAL SQUARE, GRAND CANAL HARBOUR address: 462129 address: Dublin address: IRELAND phone: +0016505434800 fax-no: +0016505435325 admin-c: PH4972-RIPE mnt-ref: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT mnt-ref: meta-mnt mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT mn
One of the sillier things I've done as an AWS/linux admin is provision an EBS disk as swap to an EC2 instance. I kept getting max allocate errors for a script I needed to run to execute a series of database queries. Reprovisioning to a new EC2 instance class with more RAM wasn't feasible at the time for some long-forgotten reason. I would never do this if I owned the disks - provisioning swap to SSD will greatly reduce the lifetime of the disk, among many reasons why this is less than ideal. But Amazon has plenty of money. I figured I could cheaply provision an EBS volume & buy myself enough swap to complete the query. Then, in some point in the future, I could create a more beautimous solution. Well, if you're a sysadmin you know how this story ends. I moved onto other fires/projects, quickly forgot about the swap situation, and here I am years later, deprovisioning the server, in all its swappy glory. This wouldn't warrant a blog post, except for the fact that I