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On Friday 23 August 2002 04:22, Gregg wrote: |
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> I run a server, it hosts 127 websites. |
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Hope with that domain name that doesn't mean what I think it means... <g> |
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> Has many users for various other |
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> things. It is currently on a celeron 600 overclocked to 675, with 256 |
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> megs of ram. The motherboard supports celeron and pII. It is beginning |
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> to choke. It is time to upgrade the motherboard, cpu and ram. Since this |
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> is an old setup (celeron and old mobo) what do I need to do when replacing |
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> them. Everything is obviously compiled for it. I have not changed any of |
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> my flags in the configuration files. So it is all just i686 in the |
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> c*flags. I want to go up to an athlon 2200. So, what do I need to |
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> consider before switching them out, what do I need to do afterword . This |
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> is a 1.3b_test system with all the latest updates (except gcc 3.2, I am |
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> still on 3.1.1) |
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I agree with some of the other posters. You're being REAL brave running that |
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on a 1.3 beta. On a server, I would have definitely gone with 1.2 (and been a |
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bit sweaty about the palms doing that -- Gentoo's strength is not stability |
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right now.) I hope most of those 127 sites belong to friends of yours that |
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are forgiving about outages. |
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The one recommendation I would make would be to compile your kernel for all |
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the new stuff as well as the old (I'd do it with modules), and if in doubt, |
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make it a module. (You'd have to have support for modules compiled in, of |
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course.) |
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I just had to replace a motherboard myself recently, and there were all kinds |
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of little oddities I had to clean up. Having support for everything in the |
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kernel will minimize your downtime getting the new box up. (I assume you want |
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it up as soon as practical.) |
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One other little tidbit from recent personal experience. Be sure to check |
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things out with hdparm once you get the new motherboard in. My new one had |
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one of my hard drives running at about 4 MB/s. After I turned on the usual |
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stuff, it ran about 40.5 MB/s. Your mileage will almost certainly vary, but |
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it's always worth checking. |