Toolserver-announce February 2013

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Reboot of the linux-boxes today
by DaB. 24 Feb '13

24 Feb '13

Hello all, for a important kernel-update I need to reboot the linux-boxes today. The reboot will happen TODAY, 20:00 UTC. The linux userland-boxes will be away for ~10min and the database-servers (sql-s2 and sql-s2) for 30min (all values are estimates). Solaris-boxes are not affected. The reboots will happen sequentially so SGE should re-schedule tasks between the boxes so the downtime for each task should be short. You can follow the progress at [1]. Sincerely, DaB. [1] https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/MNT-1297 -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 0x2d3ee2d42b255885

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2. Try: sql-s5 (dewiki) will be read-only tomorrow
by DaB. 24 Feb '13

24 Feb '13

Hello all, I just started replication on the fresh dump of s5 and will import commons later tonight. For tomorrow I plan a second try to move the user-databases from the old s5-host to the new one. So I hereby announce a read-only-time of s5 for TOMORROW, 21:00 UTC of unknown length (should take not that long because the owner of the biggest databases contacted me telling that no movement is needed) – at minimum a few hours. I will also dump wikidata from this fresh dump and import it everywhere during the next hours (so a correct wikidata-copy should be everywhere soon again). Sincerely, DaB. -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 0x2d3ee2d42b255885

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Short downtime of s2 tomorrow
by DaB. 24 Feb '13

24 Feb '13

Hello all, to (hopefully) speed up s2 I need to restart mysql to bring some config-changes live. Because of this there will be a downtime for sql-s2 starting TOMORROW, 22:00 UTC. The downtime should be less than 1h. You can follow the progress at [1]. Sincerely, DaB. [1] https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/MNT-1296 -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 0x2d3ee2d42b255885

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Postmortem: General downtime yesterday
by DaB. 24 Feb '13

24 Feb '13

Hello all, during the maintenance window yesterday evening the hole cluster was down for ~30min starting ~21:20 UTC. The problem was independent of the maintenance working, but caused the window to extend. The problem was an out-of-memory on one of our HA-nodes. Unfortunately the box did not restart itself and its ha-buddy did not detect the problem too, so the services of the out-of-memory-box were not switched to the other box. This caused the hole cluster to stand until I manually rebooted the host. I will look if I can find some kind of sensor for that; in worst case I will enable our old "reboot if low on memory"-script again. Sincerely, DaB. -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 0x2d3ee2d42b255885

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Restart of mysql on cassia (s5)
by DaB. 21 Feb '13

21 Feb '13

Hello all, to re-enable replication on cassia (sql-s5) I have to filter out wikikdata- data. This requires a restart of the mysql-process. This restart will happen TODAY, 20:00 UTC. The downtime of s5 will be ~30 minutes. Sincerely, DaB. -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 0x2d3ee2d42b255885

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sql-s5 (dewiki) will be read-only tomorrow
by DaB. 21 Feb '13

21 Feb '13

Hello all, s5 (dewiki) is the next cluster for re-setup. I already got a fresh dump from the WMF and imported it too on a server. The next step is to move the user- databases over. For this I have to switch s5 into read-only. The read-only- phase will start at Tomorrow, Thursday after 13:00 UTC. s5 carries a few very big user-databases, so I think the movement will take more an 1 day. Below is a list of the biggest user-databases, maybe their owners can take a look if some clean-up is possible? Unfortunately s5 can not stay at the new place because the server belongs to OSM. So a second read-only-phase will happen in near future (that one should be a bit faster because I will just rsync files around instead of importing). Sincerely, DaB. 1.2G u_lvova_golem_s2_zh 1.3G u_hroest 1.3G u_rdf_bots 1.6G u_multichill_commons_categories_p 1.7G u_lvova_golem_s5_de 1.8G u_mauro742 2.7G u_dschwen 20G p_merlbot_dewiki_lists 51G p_globalusage_weekly_p -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 0x2d3ee2d42b255885

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Wikidata-moving
by DaB. 20 Feb '13

20 Feb '13

Hello all, it looks like the WMF-techs are moving wikidata to cluster s5 at the moment (without announcement of course). I'm quite sure that this will break our wikidata-replication; so after my sleep I will look how the situation will be and than probably re-import wikidata everywhere (wikidata is still quite small at the moment so that's still possible). So expect the wikidata replag to rise during the next hours. Sincerely, DaB. -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 0x2d3ee2d42b255885

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List of tools on the toolserver - Help needed
by Silke Meyer 20 Feb '13

20 Feb '13

Hey all! Sorry for crossposting - I hope to reach more people here than on toolserver-l. I am impressed! Wondering what tools are actually running on the toolserver I started a list. It is long! You can admire it here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Toolserver/List_of_Tools For sure, it is incomplete as I used the toolserver wiki and jira to find information. In the light of building Tool Labs to become a platform the tools can run on, we need more information about the tools. So here is what I ask all tool developers for: * Please check if your tools are on the list (correctly). * Please fill in your software dependencies, data dependencies, use patterns (are they running continously? or webservices? Batch runs? etc.), the license. * If you have not given your software an explicit license, please note that only free software can migrate to Labs. Consider putting your stuff under a free license. * If you have already migrated your bot or tool to Labs and it is in the list, please say so in the last column "status". The same if a mentioned tool is abandoned and shall not move. Thanks for your help! Cheers, Silke -- Silke Meyer Systemadministratorin und Projektassistenz Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 260 http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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Visibility of tools
by Silke Meyer 20 Feb '13

20 Feb '13

Hi all! I was thinking about the list of tools a bit more... In my opinion, this collection of tools should be more visible to the world! There is so much work and knowledge in there and partially you really have to dig to find them... There is this plan to create/improve Labs/Tool Labs so that tools can be shared with others more easily. So one very important thing is to *know* about existing tools. How about dragging these tools into the spotlight? (The ones on the toolserver as well as the ones already living in Labs.) The other day I heard the proposal from a community member to have featured tools in a visible place, e.g. a "tool of the month" or even of the week. I like the idea! It could shortly present a tool, what it does, where to find it and the person(s) behind. What do you think of it? The first place that came to my mind where The Signpost and/or German language Kurier where we could suggest this topic. I'll be afk for the next few days and I'd be glad to read some opinions when back. :) Best, Silke -- Silke Meyer Systemadministratorin und Projektassistenz Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 260 http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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Short downtime for s2 today
by DaB. 14 Feb '13

14 Feb '13

Hello all, to update a package with a security-problem, I have to restart z-dat-s2-b today. This will cause sql-s2-user and sql-s2-rr to be down. The downtime wll start at TODAY, 19:20 UTC and should not more than a few minutes. Sincerely, DaB. -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 0x2d3ee2d42b255885

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Toolserver-announce February 2013