Since there's been a lot of other server stuff thrown around, anyone have any idea how much bandwidth fd.o uses?
Cody Maloney On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Daniel Stone <dan...@fooishbar.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 07:00:40PM +0100, Matthias Hopf wrote: >> On Feb 16, 10 09:20:44 -0800, Keith Packard wrote: >> > On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:54:56 +0100, Matthias Hopf <mh...@suse.de> wrote: >> > > But something like $100 / month sounds like a reasonable upper limit for >> > > me, and you should actually get by for half of it. >> > >> > We've got three servers and a switch; the 3U servers are $1200/year, and >> > the 2U server + switch is $600. >> >> Thanks for the insight, Keith! >> >> These prices look reasonable for rented servers. Question is rather >> >> 1) are the servers in X.org's possession or rented > > Two of them are kind of in X.Org's possession, but have effectively been > donated to MIT by Sun with the caveat that they're for the exclusive use > of the X.Org Foundation (yeah, I know this is weird -- shrug). The > other (expo.x.org, which is actually online) I believe to be in the > Foundation's possession, but I can't say for sure. > >> 2) why we had this many servers at all > > expo (the 2U machine) was there originally, and this serves the needs of > *.x.org fairly well. The 3U machines were donated by Sun and were > earmarked for backup, redundancy, sharing fd.o workload (including > mirroring), etc. > >> 3) why are 3U servers needed (drives, or are they just in the possession >> of Xorg - in that case buing some new cheaper to host hardware might >> be interesting) > > It's just what we got. I'm reasonably surprised that 3U space > apparently costs as much as 2x 2U spaces though ... hm. In any case, I > don't see anything particularly wrong with 3U. Certainly, it doesn't > make any sense at all to go to 1U: most (close to all, really) of the > fd.o performance problems we've had have come from crap disks, and you > don't get better disks with a smaller form factor. > > If we're going to buy hardware, then I'd personally recommend 2U units > (the HP ProLiant DL385s we have for fd.o have been fantastic), but as > these were donated and aren't a significant financial drain relative to > our funding base, I don't see any reason to ditch them if they're useful > to us. > > Certainly it would be useful to get them up and running for backups, > maybe testing, and redundancy at some point in the future. We actually > tried a while ago, but had myriad issues with them and ended up just > leaving it. > >> Going forward it's probably a good thing that we have enough server >> power, and I assume it's just the good ol' "nobody has any time left to >> work on that" issue. :-/ > > :) > > Cheers, > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > xorg mailing list > xorg@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg