Hello all, this is the second monthly report of the toolserver. ==SAN-System== After some more work by Mark at the beginning of the month the SAN-system (that's a disc-system in a network) is fully redundant now. Some more testing by the roots is still needed, but more or less the SAN-extending is done.
==More memory== The WMDE-chapter has bought some memory for some userland-servers and the HA- nodes. Most of these systems are short of memory, so that should help us (in case of the HA-nodes the memory-extending should make the nodes all HA again, because at the moment if one of the node is away, the other crashs soon after because of memory-shortness). The memory will be installed at the next visit of Mark in the datacenter – this will cause some downtime (the roots hope to learn about the visit soon enough so that we can message you all). ==Quota== The roots are working to get the quota-system back in action. At the moment many users do not have any quota (because of a bug in the account-creation- script) and our disc-space for /home is quite full already. If you have a free minute (no matter if you have a quota or not) please look in your home if there are files which you not longer need and delete them (that's also good for the backup-system); a good candidate are log- or tmp-files. Another mail will be send as soon as the roots started to fix the quota-system. ==Interwikibot-ban== Since 15th May the interwiki-bot-ban is finally in place. All long-running bots are now run by the MMP interwikibot, which is organized by Toto Azéro at the moment. I disabled some bots already that were still running. ==Hardware-buying back at the WMDE== After some disagreements between the WMDE and me about the funding and the future of the toolserver (and the buying of new servers), I moved the responsibility of hardware-buying back to the WMDE. So WMDE will decide if and what hardware we will get in future (so complain there when you think the TS is too slow). ==Still waiting for dumps== We are still waiting for dumps of s6 (soon we will reach the 2-month-mark) and s2. ==How to make MMPs more popular== There is a discussion [1] going on the mailinglist about making MMPs more popular; some think that a renaming would be a good idea while others think that making non-MMPs more unpopular would be a better way. *[1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-l/2012-May/004977.html ==SGE-upgrade/Linux will come back soon== Merlissimo compiled/installed successfully a upgrade of SGE in parallel to the old installation. We will do the switch soon (I will send a announcement-mail before that) and when the switch is done I will enable the login on the linux- boxes (yarrow and nightshade) again. ==User-statistic== The TS has 377 active users at the moment. The next monthly report will be send around 1. July. If you would like to help in the creation-process, please see [1]. *[1] https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Monthly_report Sincerely, DaB. -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885
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