freshmeat move complete
 by Patrick Lenz, in freshmeat - Fri, Nov 22nd 2002 13:26 UTC

After a slightly failed move the day it was originally intended (Wednesday) we were finally able to shift the site over to the new cluster at Exodus West today. Looks like we've been fooled once again by the VM in kernels newer than 2.4.9. After downgrading the database servers to that magic revision everything suddenly sprang back to speed. Click below for the rest of the deal. Right now all services have been restored back to normal state. I had to reinstall the news server from scratch since inn 2.3 wasn't willing or capable to deal with the article archives written by version 2.2 on the east coast. That said, all newsgroups will be started from scratch as well. New releases will show up there as they're approved, but there's no history. And there's nothing I could do about that. But as you guys release early and often we'll soon have a lively newsgrouphood again.

The other glitch one might notice is a spike in the project graphs for today, November 21st. Due to timezone differences and a light desync in the databases during the move the counters for today will be a little higher than they should be. Again, nothing that should prevent anyone from having a good night's sleep and nothing that can be fixed one way or another.

The hardware in the west coast cluster is almost identical with the east coast cluster, with the exception that we now have one more download/image serving box. On another note the FTP services have been terminated. All downloads (themes mainly) are available through http only, via download.freshmeat.net.

Our IRC server linked to OFTC is not yet online again, negotiations for that have been started and will most likely result in a running server early next week.

That's all for now. If you catch any oddities in any of the site's functions drop me an email through the contact form. I'm going to catch up on sleep now.

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[»] up and running
by voyager - Jan 13th 2003 08:41:22

Thanks for such a great site !

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[»] Good work guys
by chillout - Nov 23rd 2002 09:50:01

I was a little suprised when freashmeat was down last week and suddenly knew how much I use it to fetch software from the web.

Great work that all is alive again. And good luck on ironing out the last few problems

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[»] date/time
by Ken Witherow - Nov 23rd 2002 00:16:54

How about a function to make the timezone user configurable? Rather trivial, but being on the east coast, it's easier to relate to EST or even GMT than PST

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[»] Re: date/time
by Patrick Lenz - Nov 23rd 2002 00:34:47


> How about a function to make the
> timezone user configurable? Rather
> trivial, but being on the east coast,
> it's easier to relate to EST or even GMT
> than PST That's on my todo and will definitely get implemented some time soon.

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[»] Email notification
by bconway - Nov 22nd 2002 20:51:01

I didn't get any email notification of updated projects in my subscribed listing. Is this something that still needs to be set up?

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[»] yay :D
by Catie Flick - Nov 22nd 2002 19:44:51

great news! rock on.

--
"the almighty backhander of open source"

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[»] VM
by Matt B. - Nov 22nd 2002 16:17:02

You wouldn't have had VM problems if you had used FreeBSD instead of Linux.

<ducking>

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[»] Re: VM
by Darkstar AE - Nov 22nd 2002 19:01:16


> You wouldn't have had VM problems if you
> had used FreeBSD instead of Linux.
>
> <ducking>
Interesting suggestion. I should consider it. IF I knew how to use FreeBSD! And IF i knew how to put up with more than cryptic stuff in freebsd. As if Linux wasn't bad enough on my brain I'd have to finish it off with FreeBSD. ;)

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[»] Exodus possibly shut down?
by Kublai Shive - Nov 22nd 2002 16:13:26

I'm sure you guys know this but Exodus may not exist for much longer. That would suck for you guys to move in and have to move out in a few months.

http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/021113/0546000400_1.html

My company CoLos from the Exodus LA IDC and we are already looking for alternative locations (possibly SBC) incase they close our DC.

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[»] reverse patch?
by Zed - Nov 22nd 2002 15:26:36

isn't there a reverse patch to change the vm?

and where can I find details/specs on the servers (distro, hardware spec).

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[»] Re: reverse patch?
by Zed - Nov 22nd 2002 15:33:27


> isn't there a reverse patch to change
> the vm?
>
> and where can I find details/specs on
> the servers (distro, hardware spec).
shoulda mentioned, I use both debian and redhat on my boxes (depending on task). And i use 2.4.19 with the fnk patchset. Tis all good.

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[»] "This kernel is older than most of you"
by Ulric Eriksson - Nov 22nd 2002 14:04:46

bash-2.03$ ssh siag.nu
ulric@siag.nu's password:
Last login: Fri Nov 22 23:08:47 2002 from h218n2fls31o271
Linux 2.4.9.
siag:~$ uptime
11:14pm up 437 days, 16:24, 6 users, load average: 0.14, 0.20, 0.13

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