Maybe a different machine? I meant that it was not in one of the general-purpose clusters: the entire pool was dedicated and a random team couldn't request Borg

Maybe a different machine? I meant that it was not in one of the general-purpose clusters: the entire pool was dedicated and a random team couldn't request Borg quota in it. For years, though, half of the Oregon datacenter was special for one reason or another. The infamous machine did go through repairs and part swaps many times, as you could see from its long and troubled hwops history. The worst machines were the zombies with NICs bad enough to break Stubby RPCs, but still passing heartbeat checks. Or breaking connections only when (re)using specific ports. Fun times!