[gentoo-dev] [[e-mail]: [webgroup] state of ibiblio]

[Daniel Robbins]

Developers,

I thought you guys might like to know what's going on with ibiblio.org.
There seems to be a bit of irony in this somewhere -- RedHat 7 can't stay
afloat due to massive downloading of RedHat 7.1 :/

ibiblio.org "upgraded" their systems from Solaris/Sparc to RedHat/Intel
a few weeks ago.  

--Daniel

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To: "MetaLab Contributors" <webgroup@××××××××××××××××.edu>
cc: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@××××××××××.org>,
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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 11:46:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Paul Jones <pjones@×××××××××××.edu>
Subject: [webgroup] state of ibiblio

we haven't posted details before because we weren't sure what was
happening, but here goes (jem, dls and jreuning please correct me before i
post to webgroup):

we were running red hat 7 with a VA 2.2.18 kernel that allows ext3 file
systems on divahouse the www.ibiblio.org machine which is also the major
disk farm for the complex. all this on an ibm netfinity with mucho memory.

this weekend when a very desirable distribution was released (red hat
7.1), we saw our outbound traffic get very high (normal) but we also saw
the server crawling to a halt followed by a lockup.

the wonderful journaling for ext3 was not working right so late yesterday
after reinstalling the root partition completely and reinstalling the
kernel, jem also turned off ext3 and went back to ext2.

last night the outbound traffic climbed again and the slowdown began
again. by 7 edt this morning we took a kernel panic. a reboot kept us up
for about another hour and a half. then we got another kernel panic.

dls has nuked the red hat 7.1 release. he is now recapturing it on jungle
so it will be on its own server and so not hurting others. i also asked
hte campus networking folks to look at enabling a governor on the machine
so's we's be back down at about 75Mbs.

jem and jreuning are looking at kernel alternatives at the moment (red hat
2.2.19 and va 2.2.18.va2.1).

more news as it happens. right now we look pretty good (fingers crossed
for good luck)

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