Hi board an everybody!
Attention board: please treat this message as sent directly to the board, as
it is very important.
Everybody please comment.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
Hi all!
Eskimo (known to the world as iglu.org.il) is a multi-purpose server of the
Israeli Free and Open Source Software community. Not to be confused with
beak (= hamakor.org.il), Eskimo is used for E-mail, for web-services, for
ssh and for other purposes.
At the moment, we have two problems with Eskimo:
1. Our low-end IDE disk that was bought to be used by the mirrors, is giving
us many hardware problems.
2. The machine (a Compaq ProLiant 500 machine) tends to be very slow for
today's demanding load. Plus, the board has a maximal RAM of 1 GB which is
becoming hardly enough. While it is a good machine and can be re-used as a
server in a different context, we would like to upgrade to a machine with
better specs.
Note that we cannot merge Eskimo with beak because:
1. They have different admins with different philosophies.
2. Merging them at this point would be very difficult.
3. They provide some redundancy against a single point of failure.
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Here's what we need:
1. The board and the processor should have a maximum memory of at least 64 GB.
I'm sorry, but I'm pretty sure 4 GB will not be enough for long, and would
rather think ahead.
2. Any architecture would do - Intel Xeon, x86-64, UltraSPARC, Power, etc.
3. We are going to run Debian GNU/Linux on it, as that's what Eskimo is
running at the moment, and what Beak runs there as well.
4. One processor would be fine.
5. Hard disk - I think we need at least 500 GB, in several disks. One small
disk (about 40 GB will do I believe - possibly more) for the root partitions,
and 500 GB for storage. Possibly even more than 500 GB, because our mirrors
are accumulating more and more data.
6. A CD-drive, a place to plug in a USB disk, etc.
7. The server needs to be a high-end server. Low-end computers that are sold
for desktops, etc. tend to not last too long.
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If anyone would be willing to donate us a nice server or pool some money for
it, we would highly appreciate it. We will use the old server for a school or
something similar.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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