On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 11:25 +0200, Jens Frank wrote:
Anthere asked how much money we need to run the system for the rest of the year, so we took a look at the servers we have and at the growth we have seen over the last years.
The results can be seen at http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_provisional_budget
and I invite eveyone to have a look at it and provide comments.
I've added my opinion that the NFS-related problems are really a software problem, similar with the missing MySQL load balancing. The more money&hardware the better of course, but there are situations where the hardware-only approach simply fails or hits a hard wall. I think we're in such a situation.
This doesn't mean that i think we don't need money, but the decision on what to spend it on is a hard one with such a complex system. At some stage bounties for specific important software development tasks might buy more performance than heaps of hardware waiting for better software.
My Coda tests went very well so far. I've moved about 70% of my home dir to Coda for testing. I plan to do some wiki stress testing locally next, if that goes well i'd like to run test.wikipedia.org from coda next (the server is set up already on zwinger).
Gabriel Wicke