upgrade I believe. I agree, we can put some $ to get rid of these problems.
Is the donation via SF.NET?
Andreas
On 1/25/06, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OK people....
It seems CVS issues have been getting worse of late - SF.NET is being more
overloaded than ever, and thinktux needs to go down soon enough. We need to
solve this. Now This isn't edict, or guaranteed to happen, but it's an IDEA
open for discussion.
Apparently thinktux pulls some serious load and bandwidth - and that is not all
of the anonymous CVS access we have. Apparently Thinktux's machine is farily
overloaded CPU-wise and is pulling a good 25GB of CVS data traffic per day. I
imagine this will only increase over time and if all anonymous CVS access is
moved here - then it will get even worse.
So after some discussions we have a tentative offer of free hosting and
bandwidth from the guys at: http://osuosl.org/ - all we need is a server box.
We can run what we want on this - including enlightenment.org's website, and we
could host other pages if we want to too ( get-e.org, edevelop.org etc.) if
people desire, but the main issue here is easier ability to provide downloads
of tarballs (currently enlightenment.freedesktop.org servers as this dumping
ground due to sf.net limiting www space and use). and CVS - anonymous CVS. The
problems are twofold - bandwidth and load here.
Here is where you come in (users etc.). If you want better access to things
like nightly source tarballs builds, fast speedy CVS access, maybe binary
tarballs builds, etc. etc. - our own machine will allow us to do this without
limits. All we need to do is pony up enough cash to buy a machine to put in a
rack. Again - this is just an idea right now, but it's a relatively attractive
one. This allows us to monitor CVS stats better - find out just how many people
use CVS - how often, where they come from (USA, Eruope, Outer Mongolia) etc. It
gives use the opportunity to provide a better service and gain more information.
Now if enough users are willing to donate something - like $20 or $50 here and
there we can afford such a machine and thus bring CVS access and source access
up to top level standards.
This mail is meant to do 3 things.
1. Consider if this is a sane option at all (IMHO with a little work it is and
opens up lots of future possibilities).
2. If so - what box do we really need? I am thinking something like:
dual opteron/xeon or amd64 (like 2 phsical cpu's) and maybe get 2x dual core
cpu's - but don't get the expensive ones - midrange (to handle the cvs load) eg
amd64 3800's (2ghz dual core amd64 - 2 of these cpu's (so 4 cores total)), 1GB
ram minimum - likely 2-4 GB maybe for lots of disk cache, a 2u box/case and a
raid drive setup (disks go bad - setup at least raid mirroring with striped
reads doubling our read rates, and a failure is no big deal other than needing
to send out a replacement), with removable drive bays because drives go bad -
make life easy on the hosters. If a drive goes bad - limp along without backup
for a week or 2, get new drive, insert & fixed. Otherwise the rest is pretty
standard (100mbit or gigabit ethernet - irrelevant which really) etc. etc. this
can of course all be discussed as to what people think is a good value for
money box that meets our needs.
3. Are people willing to donate enough $ to make it happen?
So what do you guys think?
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