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VIRTUALISATION "Perfect storm" sank Skype
VIRTUALISATION "Perfect storm" sank Skype | "Perfect storm" sank Skype |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Wednesday, 22 August 2007 | |
  
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Describing the combination of circumstances as a "perfect storm", Skype's Villu Arak said "Skype’s peer-to-peer core was not properly tuned to cope with the load and core size changes that occurred on August 16... the [P2P network] self-healing needed outside intervention and assistance by our engineers" Skype has traced and fixed the software fault that led to the outage. "We’ve already introduced a number of improvements to our software to ensure our users will not be similarly affected in the unlikely possibility of this combination of events recurring," added Arak. |
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