Re: building a distribution server

2008-04-07 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:08:21 -0400 Brian A. Seklecki (Mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It also sounds like you need a load balancer to do zero-downtime upgrades. Just take a server out of production, upgrade it, validate it with the new OS, and put it back into rotation. and if u dont want

Re: building a distribution server

2008-04-06 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (Mobile)
If you have a heterogeneous hardware platform, you shouldn't be aff\raid to distribute binary kernels, userland, and ports. It also sounds like you need a load balancer to do zero-downtime upgrades. Just take a server out of production, upgrade it, validate it with the new OS, and put it back

Re: building a distribution server

2008-04-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
update all their ports in one shot. the problem is the down time. im wrapping up upgrading a 6.3 to 7 and its taken over 7 hours so far. thats way too long for our machines to be down. the biggest slow down is the downloading of files. just sitting watching things i would say 70% of the time

Re: building a distribution server

2008-04-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
Wojciech Puchar wrote: the biggest slow down is the downloading of files. just sitting watching things i would say 70% of the time is downloading files. is there a way where i can build a distribution server that has everything i could possibly make fetch-recursive in every port you

Re: building a distribution server

2008-04-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:23:24PM -0400, Steel City Phantom wrote: i have about 10 production servers that i want to upgrade to bsd 7 and update all their ports in one shot. the problem is the down time. im wrapping up upgrading a 6.3 to 7 and its taken over 7 hours so far. thats way too

Re: building a distribution server

2008-04-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Saturday 05 April 2008 04:23, Steel City Phantom wrote: i have about 10 production servers that i want to upgrade to bsd 7 and update all their ports in one shot. the problem is the down time. im wrapping up upgrading a 6.3 to 7 and its taken over 7 hours so far. thats way too long for

building a distribution server

2008-04-04 Thread Steel City Phantom
i have about 10 production servers that i want to upgrade to bsd 7 and update all their ports in one shot. the problem is the down time. im wrapping up upgrading a 6.3 to 7 and its taken over 7 hours so far. thats way too long for our machines to be down. the biggest slow down is the

Re: building a distribution server

2008-04-04 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 04), Steel City Phantom said: i have about 10 production servers that i want to upgrade to bsd 7 and update all their ports in one shot. the problem is the down time. im wrapping up upgrading a 6.3 to 7 and its taken over 7 hours so far. thats way too long for our