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Atomic Version of CentOS Stream and Fedora Report
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The New Stack ☛ HeliumOS Is an Atomic Version of CentOS Stream Built for Stability
But what is an atomic distribution?
Let’s just get right to the heart of this particular situation. An atomic Linux distribution is all about how applications are installed and upgraded. Let me paint a picture.
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Kevin Fenzi: Misc fedora infra bits for first week of aug 2025
The summer is just flying by. Lots of folks taking vacations (I should too) and things have been somewhat quiet this last week.
Outage on monday
We had a nasty outage on monday. It affected lots and lots of our services. At first it looked like a DDoS against the proxies in our main datacenter. They were seeing packet loss and were unable to process much of anything. These proxies are the gateways to a lot of services that are just in that one main datacenter (koji, etc). On digging some more, I was seeing a number of connections to our registry stuck in 'sending to client' in apache. They would pile up there and take up all the connection slots, then nothing else would be able to get through. It was unclear if this was causing the packet loss or the packet loss was causing this. I updated and rebooted the proxies and things came back. I'm not sure if this was really a DDoS, or if it was a kernel or apache bug or if it was caused by something else. I guess the takeaway is that if you can't quickly find a cause for something, updating and rebooting (ie, turning it off and back on again) is worth a try.