Alwin Meschede wrote:
Brion Vibber schrieb:
... but I don't think it's going to magically fix hardware problems.
BTW, what's the status of our hardware? It doesn't seem as if anything has happened over the weekend, as Wikipedia is still as slow as usual ;-)
Geoffrin, with the new motherboard, still failed memest86. Jason found self-contradictory information in the motherboard manual as to which slots pairs of memory were supposed to be in -- he tried several alternatives, and one almost worked. He has not found any configuration in which all 4Gb of RAM would pass the tests.
Today he is contacting Penguin about them replacing the machine completely. It is very likely that I will just have them send the 'new Geoffrin' directly here as part of our migration strategy.
I'm waiting to hear the status of the other hardware that Jason installed in the colo on Saturday before I do anything else, but the next step will be one of these two:
(1) I have a new Penguin 1000E dual Opteron on order for Bomis, and if Wikipedia isn't joyful by the time it comes in, I will loan it to Wikipedia.
(2) Depending on the exact status of things, I will have Jason move all the websites off of one of the existing Bomis servers to have yet another machine to loan to Wikipedia. I think I have a SCSI machine that I could trade with Wikipedia. But I have to study this for an hour or so to determine how much work it will be because another option would be to order some other 'off the shelf' configuration that Penguin or Silicon Mechanics can ship same-day, and loan that to Wikipedia instead.
--Jimbo