On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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? >
Woah http://dev.archlinux.org/stats/images/load-6months.png (if you don't know the pass, ask someone - don't want to give it out on the public list)
