Dan McGee wrote:
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Dusty Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
2008/10/20 Dale Blount <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I think we should look into upgrading our disks. Dale, could you look
into pricing and complexity of doing this? I know you mentioned that
gerolde has no extra slots, so we're have to do an actual upgrade...
Details would be appretiated
300GB 80pin Ultra 320 drives are about $400 each. Downtime would be
several hours to complete the upgrade work (disk copy, expand
partitions, expand filesystem, and probably an -Syu), and we'd want to
make sure we had a complete backup before beginning.
If y'all are willing to weight until I sell out of USB keys, I can buy
the drive out of schwag income.
Any chance of selling the old drive or is it just scrap?
Is it only disk space we're concerned with? I understood CPU usage was
pretty high here too; maybe we should consider a fundraising drive for
a second server. Maybe a public server and a dev server?
Eliott and I discussed this when he was a dev. We thought the best
idea would be to have a second server that was almost exclusively a
database machine, so no need for direct public access and could be
served off the second ethernet interface that is currently sitting
unused on gerolde. Offloading the DB to another machine would free up
a lot of RAM and allow a lot more caching to be done (reducing IO
waits), as well as giving the DB completely dedicated resources on
another machine.
Dale would obviously have to weigh in on this, and it really doesn't
solve the disk space issues, but it would drastically reduce some of
the load on our current machine.
I really like the idea of a separate database server (obviously
connected on a very fast link to Gerolde). I acknowledge that
doesn't solve the disk space problem, so I think the drive upgrade
should also be done.
Can we do any processor upgrades in Gerolde that would be
financially sensible? Adding or upgrading existing ones?
- P
