The new server (Altus 1000E) that I'm loaning to Wikipedia (I had ordered this a few weeks ago for Bomis) did not arrive on Friday, but is scheduled to arrive today. Also, extra RAM for it is scheduled to arrive today.

Depending on those two things happening correctly, of course, Jason will be installing both machines (geoffrin plus new) for Wikipedia to use later this afternoon.

Geoffrin, last I spoke to Jason, Saturday, is still not 100% healthy. It will run without errors with 3 gig of RAM, but not with 4 gig of RAM. Jason has tried a number of different things, but what we're most likely to do at some point is simply send it back to Penguin and insist that they fix it or replace it or refund our money.

However, the warranty is for 3 years, so there's no particular hurry on that front. What we might do in the meantime is populate it with 3 gig of RAM and install it for use. So this would give Wikipedia 2 dual opteron machines in working order, to see us through until the new cluster arrives here and is installed. (Scheduled ship date is late January, and presumably it'll take a week or so to get it installed and working. We'd rather take *longer* to do that, so that we can make sure it's right before switching, but of course if Wikipedia is still limping at that time, we'll just do it.)

--Jimbo