Summary

For most of 30 August, the site and tracker were intermittently slow or unavailable. Announces and page loads timed out for many users. The service is now stable.

No data was lost, and no user data was accessed or exposed. Torrents, accounts and stats are unaffected.

What happened

Our servers began receiving substantially less processing capacity than they are allocated (high CPU steal). This happened below the level we operate at, and was not visible or controllable from ...