On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:05 AM, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
stevertigo wrote:
Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
nagios? ganglia? 4-CPU apache? scap? swap? memcached node?
<eyes glazing over> Is it fixed now? Oh, good. :-)
Off the top of my head...
"Nagios" is ostensibly the report server and caching manager and "ganglia" IIRC is a page caching manager.
Actually neither of them are "caching managers" or have any direct role in caching. This isn't the forum to go into a detailed discussion of what they do mean, and a google search would do just as well to fill Carcharoth in, if he was actually interested, which he obviously isn't.
Why, thank you. :-)
Sometimes it is nice to get explanations (understandable ones) from real people, not webpages.
This is why we have a Reference Desk and (possibly) mailing lists.
And to be honest, if I had Googled myself some understanding of this, I may have ended up even more confused about it. If I had asked questions like this on the wikitech-l mailing list, would I have been told to Google the answer? Hey, maybe the Reference Desk *is* the right place for questions like this?
Carcharoth