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Hardware upgrade this evening
ChrisW - 8/11/04 at 05:39 PM

Just to let you all know, the LocostBuilders server will be getting a hardware upgrade this evening which means the site will be down for a short time.

Hope that ok with you all! (and if not, too bad!)

Cheers, Chris

ChrisW - 8/11/04 at 05:43 PM

Oh, new spec will be:

P4 3.0GHz, 512MB RAM, 2 x 80GB disks RAID1

Chris

Staple balls - 8/11/04 at 06:00 PM

but what make/model are the HDDs, and the P4 with HT on or off?


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ChrisW - 8/11/04 at 06:08 PM

They are the same HDDs we are using now to save me moving everything over. They are Maxtor DiamondMax 9+ units IIRC (7200rpm, 8mb cache)

P4 will have HT on of course!

As of last week we are running on CentOS with Apache 2 and MySQL 4.

Chris

JoelP - 8/11/04 at 06:30 PM

any idea of the time chris? cheers.

Staple balls - 8/11/04 at 06:32 PM

ooh, good choice on the drives, sorta surprises me that you're not doing the whole scsi thing but then this site doesn't appear to be too high load.

huzzah! for the HT on, providing it doesn't cause problems

and i've not played with centOS, how is it?

DickieB - 8/11/04 at 06:35 PM

What are you lot talking about?

theconrodkid - 8/11/04 at 06:39 PM

diamonds,know what they are,as to the rest,havnt got a clue

ChrisW - 8/11/04 at 06:44 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Staple balls
ooh, good choice on the drives, sorta surprises me that you're not doing the whole scsi thing but then this site doesn't appear to be too high load.

huzzah! for the HT on, providing it doesn't cause problems

and i've not played with centOS, how is it?


IDE does us fine at the moment and these drives are pretty quick with the big cache. Price vs Performance the IDE is still the clear winner. SCSI isn't really required unless you're talking big RAID arrays. On this system, big chunks of the LB database get cached in RAM anyway so unless you do a search or trawl up an old thread you won't hit the disks.

If you want ultimate performance from IDE have a look at the Western Digital Raptor. The 76GB one is quickest but sounds like a plane taking off. Our primary RADIUS server has a pair of them in it holding the database and it flies along.

HT has proved ok in the past so I'm sure it will be used again!

I'm very impressed with CentOS. Have been using RedHat since the start so it was an easy transition!

Chris

Staple balls - 8/11/04 at 06:56 PM

Indeed, i'm a fan of the raptors, have used them in a few machines.

At the moment i'm on a machine using a maxline III 300gb, really bloody impressive was quite a bit of money, but the 16mb cache is very handy. Most tests i've seen brought them in clost to raptors for speed on a good deal of tasks.

Although, i think the ideal move would be a 76gb raptor for OS etc, with a maxline III as storage and suchlike.

But still, that's silly money, and would make more sense to wait for SATA to get up to full whack

i've seen a few machines have problems with HT being enabled, normally people doing it after a windows install though.

CentOS looks like it could be interesting to play with, unfortunately my test machine is dead at the moment

Northy - 8/11/04 at 10:46 PM

Wow, well quick now Chris, cheers

Peteff - 8/11/04 at 11:06 PM

I've been watching telly, did I miss anything?

ChrisW - 9/11/04 at 12:44 AM

Yup. Well, I didn't do it, my colleage did. I was watching Top Gear

Chris