Re: RFC: Server disk slowly failing, I plan to replace it using tip jar.
Stuart D. Gathman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: With that much memory in a server, non-ECC seems rather a risk. A new Dell 3.0Ghz Pentium-D dual core 2G ECC ram 2x250G SATA is about $700 delivered in the continental US (SC440). (Just bought one for home - very quiet.) Then there are older SC400 models on ebay and such - typically 2.8Ghz Pentium 4. Maybe if the tip jar gets big enough? (...goes to get wallet...). Well, we certainly have the cash in the tip jar for that, but I don't think we need to spend that money now. First, I wouldn't want to buy a used system. Second, I also don't think we need a new system, yet. I'd rather spend only $150 to upgrade the existing server than $700 to buy a new one, when frankly the existing server is working quite well under the current load. Yes, we'll probably need a new server in another year or three if the load continues to increase as it's been increasing. This server has been deployed for... three years? It started with FC1, then was updated to FC4, and I plan to update to F7 at the end of the month. I think it certainly has another one or two years left in it before it should get retired.. The next server I want to by is either a dual-chip quad-code (8 CPUs) or a quad-chip quad-core (16 CPUs) with somewhere from 16-32GB ram to act as a VM server with a bunch of VMs for builds, tests, etc. (this would probably be a shared box between my company, my personal stuff, and gnucash). But that's probably not on the radar until next year. But thank you for your suggestion. -derek -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: RFC: Server disk slowly failing, I plan to replace it using tip jar.
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 09:19:57AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: The next server I want to by is either a dual-chip quad-code (8 CPUs) or a quad-chip quad-core (16 CPUs) with somewhere from 16-32GB ram to act as a VM server with a bunch of VMs for builds, tests, etc. cue homer simpson's drool A signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: RFC: Server disk slowly failing, I plan to replace it using tip jar.
Christian Stimming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am Freitag, 5. Oktober 2007 16:35 schrieb Josh Sled: Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was planning to use the tip jar for this purchase, which is why I'm soliciting opinions before I purchase anything. Note that if I order from NewEgg I can usually have the item delivered the next day. On the other hand I wont have time to work on the hardware until probably October 27-28, so we have a little time to come to consensus. So... Comments? Suggestions? Sounds good to me. Good for me, too. After all, this is precisely that sort of issues what the tip jar is for. Okay, sounds like rough consensus to me. I've got plenty of money in the tip jar but wanted to get feedback before I ordered anything. I'll order two drives and I'm thinking of adding another 500MB of memory (for an additional $60) to max out the memory of the server. I just didn't want to do it unilaterally, but it sounds like we have a consensus. Let me know if you have objections to the RAM purchase as well. Thanks, Christian -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP key available ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: RFC: Server disk slowly failing, I plan to replace it using tip jar.
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 09:52:15AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: Okay, sounds like rough consensus to me. I've got plenty of money in the tip jar but wanted to get feedback before I ordered anything. I'll order two drives and I'm thinking of adding another 500MB of memory (for an additional $60) to max out the memory of the server. Splurge and get the whole 512MB. :P -chris -derek ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: RFC: Server disk slowly failing, I plan to replace it using tip jar.
On 10/6/07, Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Stimming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am Freitag, 5. Oktober 2007 16:35 schrieb Josh Sled: Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was planning to use the tip jar for this purchase, which is why I'm soliciting opinions before I purchase anything. Note that if I order from NewEgg I can usually have the item delivered the next day. On the other hand I wont have time to work on the hardware until probably October 27-28, so we have a little time to come to consensus. So... Comments? Suggestions? Sounds good to me. Good for me, too. After all, this is precisely that sort of issues what the tip jar is for. Okay, sounds like rough consensus to me. I've got plenty of money in the tip jar but wanted to get feedback before I ordered anything. I'll order two drives and I'm thinking of adding another 500MB of memory (for an additional $60) to max out the memory of the server. Max out...with 512MB? What will that take it up to? 2GB? Sounds good to me. Nathan (PS: tigerdirect has 512 on for $37, assuming we're using DDR http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=586829Sku=ULT30215) ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: RFC: Server disk slowly failing, I plan to replace it using tip jar.
On 10/6/07, Nathan Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/6/07, Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Stimming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am Freitag, 5. Oktober 2007 16:35 schrieb Josh Sled: Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was planning to use the tip jar for this purchase, which is why I'm soliciting opinions before I purchase anything. Note that if I order from NewEgg I can usually have the item delivered the next day. On the other hand I wont have time to work on the hardware until probably October 27-28, so we have a little time to come to consensus. So... Comments? Suggestions? Sounds good to me. Good for me, too. After all, this is precisely that sort of issues what the tip jar is for. Okay, sounds like rough consensus to me. I've got plenty of money in the tip jar but wanted to get feedback before I ordered anything. I'll order two drives and I'm thinking of adding another 500MB of memory (for an additional $60) to max out the memory of the server. Max out...with 512MB? What will that take it up to? 2GB? Sounds good to me. Nathan (PS: tigerdirect has 512 on for $37, assuming we're using DDR http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=586829Sku=ULT30215) ah, s/\.ca/\.com and it's $30 -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Got Mole problems? Call Avogadro at 6.02 x 10^23. ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: RFC: Server disk slowly failing, I plan to replace it using tip jar.
Quoting Nathan Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Max out...with 512MB? What will that take it up to? 2GB? Sounds good to me. Nathan (PS: tigerdirect has 512 on for $37, assuming we're using DDR http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=586829Sku=ULT30215) Sorry, let me rephrase... I need to replace the existing 512MB DIMM with a 1GB DIMM to take the box from 1.5GB to 2GB, which is the Max (according to crucial.com, whom I DO trust with these things). So I need a 1GB PC2700 2.5CAS non-buffered, non-ECC DIMM, which is about $50. -derek ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: RFC: Server disk slowly failing, I plan to replace it using tip jar.
On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, let me rephrase... I need to replace the existing 512MB DIMM with a 1GB DIMM to take the box from 1.5GB to 2GB, which is the Max (according to crucial.com, whom I DO trust with these things). So I need a 1GB PC2700 2.5CAS non-buffered, non-ECC DIMM, which is about $50. With that much memory in a server, non-ECC seems rather a risk. A new Dell 3.0Ghz Pentium-D dual core 2G ECC ram 2x250G SATA is about $700 delivered in the continental US (SC440). (Just bought one for home - very quiet.) Then there are older SC400 models on ebay and such - typically 2.8Ghz Pentium 4. Maybe if the tip jar gets big enough? (...goes to get wallet...). -- Stuart D. Gathman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154 Confutatis maledictis, flamis acribus addictis - background song for a Microsoft sponsored Where do you want to go from here? commercial. ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: RFC: Server disk slowly failing, I plan to replace it using tip jar.
On 10/6/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Nathan Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Max out...with 512MB? What will that take it up to? 2GB? Sounds good to me. Nathan (PS: tigerdirect has 512 on for $37, assuming we're using DDR http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=586829Sku=ULT30215 ) Sorry, let me rephrase... I need to replace the existing 512MB DIMM with a 1GB DIMM to take the box from 1.5GB to 2GB, which is the Max (according to crucial.com, whom I DO trust with these things). So I need a 1GB PC2700 2.5CAS non-buffered, non-ECC DIMM, which is about $50. Ah, makes sense now. -derek -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Got Mole problems? Call Avogadro at 6.02 x 10^23. ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
RFC: Server disk slowly failing, I plan to replace it using tip jar.
Hi,
One of the disks in the CVS/SVN/Wiki/etc server is slowly failing. I
read the daily log reports and every week or so for the past month
I've received a report of a failed sector on hda, e.g.:
WARNING: Kernel Errors Present
end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector ...: 2 Time(s)
hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { Uncorrect ...: 2 Time(s)
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } ...: 2 Time(s)
Oct 4 22:40:13 raid1: hda6: rescheduling sector 18089128
Oct 4 22:40:19 raid1: hda6: redirecting sector 18089128 to another mirror
So in order to prevent data loss, I'd like to replace the HDD. I'm
considering replacing it with this 250G/16M Seagate drive:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148143
Actually, I'd like to order TWO of these drives. No, we don't really
need the extra space (we still have 40G free on /home, out of 56G
using a pair of 80G drives in RAID1), but I might as well replace both
drives at the same time as they're both about the same age. This is
the cheapest 16MB cache drive I could find, and it's one of the
cheapest Seagate drives I could find (the only cheaper Seagate had
only a 2MB cache).
Granted, I could save $20 per drive by going with a 200G/8MB Maxtor:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822144211
I'm really hoping to avoid Western Digital.
I was planning to use the tip jar for this purchase, which is why I'm
soliciting opinions before I purchase anything. Note that if I order
from NewEgg I can usually have the item delivered the next day. On
the other hand I wont have time to work on the hardware until probably
October 27-28, so we have a little time to come to consensus.
So... Comments? Suggestions?
-derek
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Re: RFC: Server disk slowly failing, I plan to replace it using tip jar.
Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was planning to use the tip jar for this purchase, which is why I'm soliciting opinions before I purchase anything. Note that if I order from NewEgg I can usually have the item delivered the next day. On the other hand I wont have time to work on the hardware until probably October 27-28, so we have a little time to come to consensus. So... Comments? Suggestions? Sounds good to me. (Are you thinking of doing the other os/software upgrades at the same time?) -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpzzcmgG574J.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: RFC: Server disk slowly failing, I plan to replace it using tip jar.
Josh Sled [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was planning to use the tip jar for this purchase, which is why I'm soliciting opinions before I purchase anything. Note that if I order from NewEgg I can usually have the item delivered the next day. On the other hand I wont have time to work on the hardware until probably October 27-28, so we have a little time to come to consensus. So... Comments? Suggestions? Sounds good to me. (Are you thinking of doing the other os/software upgrades at the same time?) Yes, sorry, I should've made it clear that my plan would be to update the hardware and then update to Fedora 7 at the same time, which is why I would book a weekend for it. I can get the disks effectively overnight (NewEgg is great that way!) so it's just a question of consensus on what disks to obtain and me making the time to actually do the work. ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP key available ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: RFC: Server disk slowly failing, I plan to replace it using tip jar.
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 10:29:55AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: Hi, snip So... Comments? Suggestions? Good idea. -chris ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: RFC: Server disk slowly failing, I plan to replace it using tip jar.
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 10:40:29AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: Josh Sled [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was planning to use the tip jar for this purchase, which is why I'm soliciting opinions before I purchase anything. Note that if I order from NewEgg I can usually have the item delivered the next day. On the other hand I wont have time to work on the hardware until probably October 27-28, so we have a little time to come to consensus. So... Comments? Suggestions? Sounds good to me. (Are you thinking of doing the other os/software upgrades at the same time?) Yes, sorry, I should've made it clear that my plan would be to update the hardware and then update to Fedora 7 at the same time, which is why I would book a weekend for it. I can get the disks effectively overnight (NewEgg is great that way!) so it's just a question of consensus on what disks to obtain and me making the time to actually do the work. I'm partial to seagate drives, especially those 5yr warranty ones but regardless, I put some $ in the tip jar to help out with this and thanks as always guys for great work! A signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: RFC: Server disk slowly failing, I plan to replace it using tip jar.
On 10/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 10:40:29AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: Josh Sled [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was planning to use the tip jar for this purchase, which is why I'm soliciting opinions before I purchase anything. Note that if I order from NewEgg I can usually have the item delivered the next day. On the other hand I wont have time to work on the hardware until probably October 27-28, so we have a little time to come to consensus. So... Comments? Suggestions? Sounds good to me. (Are you thinking of doing the other os/software upgrades at the same time?) Yes, sorry, I should've made it clear that my plan would be to update the hardware and then update to Fedora 7 at the same time, which is why I would book a weekend for it. I can get the disks effectively overnight (NewEgg is great that way!) so it's just a question of consensus on what disks to obtain and me making the time to actually do the work. I'm partial to seagate drives, especially those 5yr warranty ones but regardless, I put some $ in the tip jar to help out with this and thanks as always guys for great work! A I'd say go for it with the 16MB cache Seagates, too. Pulling myself out of the temporary poverty that is college, I couldn't add much to the tip jar. But I appreciate a software project that has been solid for me for a couple of years now. ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: RFC: Server disk slowly failing, I plan to replace it using tip jar.
Am Freitag, 5. Oktober 2007 16:35 schrieb Josh Sled: Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was planning to use the tip jar for this purchase, which is why I'm soliciting opinions before I purchase anything. Note that if I order from NewEgg I can usually have the item delivered the next day. On the other hand I wont have time to work on the hardware until probably October 27-28, so we have a little time to come to consensus. So... Comments? Suggestions? Sounds good to me. Good for me, too. After all, this is precisely that sort of issues what the tip jar is for. Christian ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
