ChrisW
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| posted on 8/11/04 at 05:39 PM |
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Hardware upgrade this evening
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
My gaff my rules
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ChrisW
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| posted on 8/11/04 at 05:43 PM |
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Oh, new spec will be:
P4 3.0GHz, 512MB RAM, 2 x 80GB disks RAID1
Chris
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Staple balls
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| posted on 8/11/04 at 06:00 PM |
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but what make/model are the HDDs, and the P4 with HT on or off?
/pervert
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ChrisW
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| posted on 8/11/04 at 06:08 PM |
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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
My gaff my rules
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JoelP
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| posted on 8/11/04 at 06:30 PM |
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any idea of the time chris? cheers.
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Staple balls
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| posted on 8/11/04 at 06:32 PM |
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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?
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DickieB
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| posted on 8/11/04 at 06:35 PM |
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What are you lot talking about?
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theconrodkid
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| posted on 8/11/04 at 06:39 PM |
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diamonds,know what they are,as to the rest,havnt got a clue
who cares who wins
pass the pork pies
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ChrisW
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| posted on 8/11/04 at 06:44 PM |
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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
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Staple balls
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| posted on 8/11/04 at 06:56 PM |
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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 
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Northy
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| posted on 8/11/04 at 10:46 PM |
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Wow, well quick now Chris, cheers
Graham
Website under construction. Help greatfully received as I don't really know what I'm doing!
"If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?"
Built 2L 8 Valve Vx Powered Avon
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Peteff
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| posted on 8/11/04 at 11:06 PM |
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Have you done it then?
I've been watching telly, did I miss anything?
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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ChrisW
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| posted on 9/11/04 at 12:44 AM |
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Yup. Well, I didn't do it, my colleage did. I was watching Top Gear 
Chris
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