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Not exactly sure what caused it, but my server crashed last night around 6:15pm.

Logs just have:

Mar 5 18:13:50 [kernel] eth0: PCI Bus error 8290.
Mar 5 18:13:51 [kernel] eth1: Tx timeout - resetting


We’ve been cleaning up the server room and making some changes. One of the guys moved my box a bit and might have jiggled things just enough to cause this.

I wanted to post this before, but got busy and now I can’t find the original post about this, but anyway…

When doing network stuff in Ruby – using any Net:: libs – there’s a little trick to trap for timeouts. You can’t simply use “rescue” do handle it. The timeout error is not a subclass of the standard error, so you have to explicitly trap for it:

begin
# Do network stuff
rescue Timeout::Error
# Timeout error
rescue
# Other error
end