Hello all,
at Wednesday, 14th March, between 19:00 and 23:59 UTC we will have a
maintenance-window.
The most important change is the update of SGE, which will stop all planed and
running SGE-jobs during the update.
We will also try to use the new SAN-system for the first time and we will move
the commons-database on rosemary to the SAN (for that we have to stop
rosemary's MySQL). If this is successfull, I will dump the user-databases on
thyme (for that I will switch thyme to read-only) and than import them into
rosemary – as a preparation of the re-import of sql-s1 on thyme when the wmf
provide us with a fresh dump.
If we have enough time, we will extend the disc-size of z-dat-s4-a, which will
cause a (short) downtime of sql-s4-user (sql-s4-rr will stay online).
No other userland-software will be updated during the window, but we may
install solaris-patches for the OS and system-services if we find the time.
Sincerely,
DaB.
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Hello all,
as you may know status.toolserver.org was only a static page for some days,
because the original site with the dynamic code went down. I promised a
rewrite and that is done now, the new dynamic page is in place and working – I
switched to it some minutes ago. I tried to keep as much backwards-
compatibilty as possible, but it is not 100% the same old page (if you need
the same old page for a quick&dirty fix in your tools, you can find it at [1]).
I changed many things in the backparts, that will make the live of the roots
easier, but I also added some features at the fronside: XML-, JSON- and a
plain-output.
Please notice that the page runs on a external server of mine, that has not
the performance of the toolserver – so please keep the access-rates civil (not
more than 1/minute) and provide a useful user-agent (I will block unuseful
ones). I plan to setup a cache-instance of it in the toolserver-cluster to
allow more accesses; but not at the moment.
If you find a problem, please fill in a ticket at JIRA (in the TS-queue).
Sincerley,
DaB.
[1] http://status.toolserver.org/static/old.html
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Hello all,
as you may noticed nightshade is not re-setup yet and also yarrow is not back
for use. That have a reason: We decided to get rid of Solaris on the userland-
server again, because no real solaris-expert is left in the root-group; but
there are 2 Debian-users in the group so we choose Debian as new operating
system.
The original plan was to use yarrow as a playground and when everything is fine
there to switch willow. For some unknown reason, nightshade lost its solaris-
installation shortly after or during the last colo-visit.
So the plan was changed in the following manner: We use yarrow as playground,
but try to speed up everything, and when we fine with it, we switch
*nightshade* over. I hope to make all changes to puppet (our server-managment-
system) during the next 7 days, but it may take few days longer.
If you are a Debian-user too, you can help me a little bit: Insert needed
packages at [1] and help other users to find packages for their needed
liberies.
Willow will keep Solaris for several more months (if nothing bad happens with
it), so there will be no problems with non-running tools. At first everything
will keep running on willow and when you are ready you can switch over your
tools to Debian (if you use SGE, that will be very easy because only 1 flag has
to set – more details later) – for most tools there should be no (big)
problems.
Just as a information for you what is going on at the moment.
Sincerley,
DaB.
[1] https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/User:Dab/Debian-Packages
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