[Foundation-l] Re: Concern with performance issues

[Rich Holton]

--- Tim Starling <t.starling at physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:

> 
> The cheap way to get more hardware is to fix the ~7 machines that are
> currently broken and under warranty. Setting up new machines is a 
> significant time cost to the system administrator team, it would be 
> better if the existing machines were fixed and put back into service
> as 
> soon as possible after breaking. The cluster configuration changes 
> constantly, if a machine is out of action for long enough,
> reconfiguring 
> it to match the rest of the cluster becomes as hard as adding a new
> machine.
> 
> There's not much any of us can do to get machines fixed besides
> hassle 
> Jimbo.
> 
> I'm told 10 machines were ordered yesterday, that will help. Here are
> 
> the details:
> 
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hardware_ordered_January_2005
> 

Perhaps it's time for us to consider on-site service as part of the
warranty package. It is truly dismaying to see that we are ordering 10
new machines when we have ~7 under warranty that need to be repaired.

-Rich Holton
(en.wikipedia:user:Rholton)


		
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