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		EdwardDiego on Nov 23, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: WikiLeaks is struggling to stay online as millions... I'm not sure how you can have millions of docs disappear, but not all of them. It just sounds like their web-app is being severely throttled on CPU or memory or similar, so can't hit the indexes it needs to?

Cthulhu_ on Nov 23, 2022 [–]

I'm no expert, but maybe it's disks that are failing; not catastrophically, but causing enough read errors to make most files unavailable.

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