Sorry for the massive crossposting, but this is big good news.
The new colocation facility (Neutelligent/Hostway, Tampa) just called me and they are at this moment taking delivery of 9 new servers belonging to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-)
I'm heading over there now with Michael and we will be spending as long as it takes to install them.
It's more up to Brion and the other developers as to when we'll be able to go live on these. I'm just going to get them up and running and make sure that the latest (most secure) ssh is on them.
Since I'm on my way out the door and need a quick list of names
suidas beauvais glanwilla moreri hoffman bayle coronelli zwinger browne
are taken from "Notable encyclopedists before 1700", in the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia
--Jimbo
On Jan 30, 2004, at 11:27, Jimmy Wales wrote:
The new colocation facility (Neutelligent/Hostway, Tampa) just called me and they are at this moment taking delivery of 9 new servers belonging to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-)
Neat!
It's more up to Brion and the other developers as to when we'll be able to go live on these. I'm just going to get them up and running and make sure that the latest (most secure) ssh is on them.
We will do *nothing* with them until they've passed thorough memory tests and maybe some disk grinding for good measure.
If you guys could run a few passes of memtest86 on each machine before setting them up and putting them on a nework, that would be great. We can run memtester inside the OS but that's not necessarily as reliable.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
If you guys could run a few passes of memtest86 on each machine before setting them up and putting them on a nework, that would be great. We can run memtester inside the OS but that's not necessarily as reliable.
Not this weekend, I can't. It's already past closing time and they've let me stay here this long. But I'll be here on Monday to do that, yes. (I thought they would let me be here all weekend, but apparently only if I beg. I don't think I need to be here, though, because once I finish tonight, they'll all at least be on the net so much can be done from home.)
Right now, they are all on the net, and Jason is following behind me upgrading SSH and generally locking things down.
--Jimbo
you may want to test the CPUs and the memory with MPrime too:
--Optim
--- Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
On Jan 30, 2004, at 11:27, Jimmy Wales wrote:
The new colocation facility
(Neutelligent/Hostway, Tampa) just called
me and they are at this moment taking
delivery of 9 new servers
belonging to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-)
Neat!
It's more up to Brion and the other
developers as to when we'll be
able to go live on these. I'm just going to
get them up and running
and make sure that the latest (most secure)
ssh is on them.
We will do *nothing* with them until they've passed thorough memory tests and maybe some disk grinding for good measure.
If you guys could run a few passes of memtest86 on each machine before setting them up and putting them on a nework, that would be great. We can run memtester inside the OS but that's not necessarily as reliable.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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I ran memtester on all the new machines overnight, for about 20-21 hours, with no problems. I'm now running the VA-CTCS "cerebus" burn-in tests.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/va-ctcs/
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Tomorrow morning I'll be taking all of them offline to run memtest86 for 24 hours. Tuesday morning I'll put them back online and that'll be our "seal of approval". At that point, beta-testing the software setup seems wise.
--Jimbo
Brion Vibber wrote:
I ran memtester on all the new machines overnight, for about 20-21 hours, with no problems. I'm now running the VA-CTCS "cerebus" burn-in tests.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/va-ctcs/
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 15:28:12 -0800, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Tomorrow morning I'll be taking all of them offline to run memtest86 for 24 hours. Tuesday morning I'll put them back online and that'll be our "seal of approval". At that point, beta-testing the software setup seems wise.
Please swap the memory before the test- the Squids need at least 3Gb, better 4 to be fast (they should serve whole wikipedia from memory).
Gabriel Wicke wrote:
Tomorrow morning I'll be taking all of them offline to run memtest86 for 24 hours. Tuesday morning I'll put them back online and that'll be our "seal of approval". At that point, beta-testing the software setup seems wise.
Please swap the memory before the test- the Squids need at least 3Gb, better 4 to be fast (they should serve whole wikipedia from memory).
Yes, I will do this.
--Jimbo
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 21:27, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Sorry for the massive crossposting, but this is big good news.
Quit apologizing; already.
Since I'm on my way out the door and need a quick list of names
suidas beauvais glanwilla moreri hoffman bayle coronelli zwinger browne
What are the odds that Suidas, Bayle, Zwinger and/or Browne gain alternative spellings if they exhibit non-nominal performance?
are taken from "Notable encyclopedists before 1700", in the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia
--Jimbo
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