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.
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