2008/10/20 Dale Blount <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I think we should look into upgrading our disks. Dale, could you look >> into pricing and complexity of doing this? I know you mentioned that >> gerolde has no extra slots, so we're have to do an actual upgrade... >> Details would be appretiated >> > > 300GB 80pin Ultra 320 drives are about $400 each. Downtime would be > several hours to complete the upgrade work (disk copy, expand > partitions, expand filesystem, and probably an -Syu), and we'd want to > make sure we had a complete backup before beginning.
If y'all are willing to weight until I sell out of USB keys, I can buy the drive out of schwag income. Any chance of selling the old drive or is it just scrap? Is it only disk space we're concerned with? I understood CPU usage was pretty high here too; maybe we should consider a fundraising drive for a second server. Maybe a public server and a dev server? Also, James' comment about needing to log into another box for building/uploading made me think it might be worthwhile to set up the occasional EC2 instance for this sort of thing. If you do the work and shut it down in a few hours, it'll cost like a dollar. This can give access to either x86_64 or i686 machines and if necessary, a lot of CPU and memory to make compiling more entertaining. Dusty
