Silke Meyer <silke.me...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > Dear toolserver crowd, especially dear WMDE members among you!
> tldr; > I am asking the WMDE members committed to the toolserver: What can be > a satisfactory state of the server given this strange situation of > transition? > [...] I would start with fixing the current state. For example, every few days, apparently the LDAP server crashes. This sucks big time, as many (all?) other services like the mail system depend on them and get stuck. Nagios/tsnag shows various issues as well. They need to be addressed and are not. While searching for another topic, I found no claims outside of the Toolserver universe that long-running read queries on slaves increase the replication lag per se, yet we do this. This needs looking into. Any discussion of enhancements to the Toolserver is hindered by the lack of transparency that surrounds it: Nagios com- plains of too little disk space, yet Nosy recently added some. So do we need more disks, or do we have enough disk space, but it's just sitting idle? How much does additional hardware and its installation cost? Is it € 1.000,-? € 10.000,-? € 100.000,-? We (WMDE) spend a lot of money on crap, so a reasonable investment that im- proves quality of service is well justified (and was dis- cussed ad nausea and *approved* by the general assembly). But for example Sebastian was tasked to investigate what servers to purchase so they could be reused by WMF after the Toolserver shutdown. I haven't seen any followup to this. Any investment in hardware also should keep in mind that the foundation gives away decommissioned servers for *free* *every* year just because new servers reduce their costs, so we shouldn't be too shy about it. Tim _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
