On Thu, 13 May 2004 07:12:18 -0700 Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
The 3ware SATA RAID card of course will be a separate kettle of fish. :) It has its own driver, which we'll have to figure out someday.
I tested it here in the office on an old machine, by installing Fedora Core 1. I did not test it regarding DMA or anything fancy, all I can say is that it functions under Fedora Core 1.
When the new servers arrive, my plan is to install it with 2x250Gb and probably Fedora Core 1 (with your permission) and then stick it in the colo for ya'll to test more thoroughly. With 1 new big powerful db server and 4 new 1U boxes (to be customized according to our needs), we should have spare boxes enough to be able to run tests and such.
I'm afraid that the 4 new 1U boxes will be used quickly.... As our 5 web servers are completely overloaded. And one squid, browne, is often at a load 20-30. Just an idea, for the web servers, as we use only cpu on this boxes, maybe we could buy some inexpensive dual-athlon instead of mono-P4.
Just my 2 cents.
Shaihulud