Bok
03-26-2004, 02:54 PM
If I'm right on the identity of the one VERY generous donation (and I'm pretty sure I am) I'd like to thank that person. You do a tremendous service to the community both by this and other donations made in the past. :cheers:
Bok
Cut and paste from the DNET site.
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:: 25-Mar-2004 23:06 CST (Thursday) ::
Just to answer some questions... Apologies for the acronym overload...
The old statsbox (aka "blower" or "statsbox3") was a quad xeon 450mhz
with 2GB RAM and Dell Perc RAID. It had five SCSI disks configured in a
2xRAID1 3xRAID5 configuration.
The new statsbox has been ordered (as yet unnamed). It will be:
Dual Opteron 1.8GHz
4GB RAM
8X200GB SATA (Hotswap) on 3Ware 8506 RAID Controller
3U Case
No keyboard :)
The current plan is to split the 8 drives as:
2xRAID1 + Hot Spare
4xRAID10 + Hot Spare
We'll of course be staying with PostgreSQL and FreeBSD, although bumping
to FreeBSD 5.x for amd64 support.
I expect to get an ETA for delivery tomorrow (Friday 26-March UTC-6)
:: 24-Mar-2004 20:37 CST (Wednesday) ::
Thanks in part to user donations (including one VERY generous donation)
we're close to being able to order a new stats server. After some
internal debate on the best approach, the current plan is to pick up a
dual opteron box and load it with memory and drives. Traditionally,
statsbox has been i/o bound on disk and memory but not very demanding of
CPU. An Opteron solution sounds like a good target platform for what we
need.
I spent a lot of today borrowing a surrogate opteron box from Bovine to
validate that postgresql and freebsd 5.x are a viable platform. I've also
confirmed with Doug White and Vinor Kashyap that 3Ware support
in FreeBSD 5.x is stable and reliable.
We're also eager to move to a smaller sized case -- blower was in a
gigantic Dell 6400 series case which limited our options for alternative
colos if we ever decided to move servers around. I think we can stuff
everything we need into a 3U chassis.
I've got a price quote that seems agreeable and I hope to place the order
tomorrow. It's unlikely this will get us back online before next week,
though.
I'll post more as the ordering+building+deployment progresses...
Thanks again everyone for your patience and understanding.
Bok
Cut and paste from the DNET site.
---------------------Begin-----------------------------
:: 25-Mar-2004 23:06 CST (Thursday) ::
Just to answer some questions... Apologies for the acronym overload...
The old statsbox (aka "blower" or "statsbox3") was a quad xeon 450mhz
with 2GB RAM and Dell Perc RAID. It had five SCSI disks configured in a
2xRAID1 3xRAID5 configuration.
The new statsbox has been ordered (as yet unnamed). It will be:
Dual Opteron 1.8GHz
4GB RAM
8X200GB SATA (Hotswap) on 3Ware 8506 RAID Controller
3U Case
No keyboard :)
The current plan is to split the 8 drives as:
2xRAID1 + Hot Spare
4xRAID10 + Hot Spare
We'll of course be staying with PostgreSQL and FreeBSD, although bumping
to FreeBSD 5.x for amd64 support.
I expect to get an ETA for delivery tomorrow (Friday 26-March UTC-6)
:: 24-Mar-2004 20:37 CST (Wednesday) ::
Thanks in part to user donations (including one VERY generous donation)
we're close to being able to order a new stats server. After some
internal debate on the best approach, the current plan is to pick up a
dual opteron box and load it with memory and drives. Traditionally,
statsbox has been i/o bound on disk and memory but not very demanding of
CPU. An Opteron solution sounds like a good target platform for what we
need.
I spent a lot of today borrowing a surrogate opteron box from Bovine to
validate that postgresql and freebsd 5.x are a viable platform. I've also
confirmed with Doug White and Vinor Kashyap that 3Ware support
in FreeBSD 5.x is stable and reliable.
We're also eager to move to a smaller sized case -- blower was in a
gigantic Dell 6400 series case which limited our options for alternative
colos if we ever decided to move servers around. I think we can stuff
everything we need into a 3U chassis.
I've got a price quote that seems agreeable and I hope to place the order
tomorrow. It's unlikely this will get us back online before next week,
though.
I'll post more as the ordering+building+deployment progresses...
Thanks again everyone for your patience and understanding.