On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Paul Mattal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan McGee wrote: >> >> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Dusty Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> 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? >> >> Eliott and I discussed this when he was a dev. We thought the best >> idea would be to have a second server that was almost exclusively a >> database machine, so no need for direct public access and could be >> served off the second ethernet interface that is currently sitting >> unused on gerolde. Offloading the DB to another machine would free up >> a lot of RAM and allow a lot more caching to be done (reducing IO >> waits), as well as giving the DB completely dedicated resources on >> another machine. >> >> Dale would obviously have to weigh in on this, and it really doesn't >> solve the disk space issues, but it would drastically reduce some of >> the load on our current machine. > > I really like the idea of a separate database server (obviously connected on > a very fast link to Gerolde). I acknowledge that doesn't solve the disk > space problem, so I think the drive upgrade should also be done. > > Can we do any processor upgrades in Gerolde that would be financially > sensible? Adding or upgrading existing ones?
Good question. We have a decent chunk of money in donations right now. Dale, is there anything else we could throw money at to upgrade the machine?
