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