Site back up

[Gantry]

Sorry about that, not sure what went on.  Looked over to dee-nee and the out-of-memory killer was running, I couldn't login or reboot.  Waited to see if the OOM killer would work and I ran out of time so I hard reset.  Then the fsck had to run...

I really need to get a journalling filesystem installed on dee-nee...

[Nacho]

Gantry broke the internets.

[Guy Smiley]

hey, the site was down a few minutes ago.  whats wrong with the servers?

[Gerlost]

It's running kind of slow now...

[TβG]

I really need to get a journalling filesystem installed on dee-nee...

i heard a program called ultimate7 is pretty good

[ultimate7]

Yeah but when it's down I can't get through to post, I should have email Gantry (does his email still go through to the Dee-Nee address when the site is down?)

[Gantry]

Email is housed on a different server, email will get through...

[Big Hath]

Gantry has the technology, he can rebuild.

[Gantry]

I rebooted the server to get the memory back to 384M, hopefully nobody noticed...

[nightwulf]

I really need to get a journalling filesystem installed on dee-nee...

You know you can convert ext2 to ext3 in place, right? Takes like |----| that long.

[BDawk]

I really need to get a journalling filesystem installed on dee-nee...

You know you can convert ext2 to ext3 in place, right? Takes like |----| that long.

With all those cell phones on his belt ringing all the time, how can you expect him to rmember that?

[JerryD]

I rebooted the server to get the memory back to 384M, hopefully nobody noticed...

I could have sworn it was 380M.

[fknmclane]

Whatever it takes.

[Gantry]

I really need to get a journalling filesystem installed on dee-nee...

You know you can convert ext2 to ext3 in place, right? Takes like |----| that long.

Assuming your kernel has support for it.

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natas% more /proc/filesystems                              gantry at 21:24 in ~
nodev   rootfs
nodev   bdev
nodev   proc
nodev   sockfs
nodev   tmpfs
nodev   shm
nodev   pipefs
        ext2
nodev   ramfs
        iso9660
nodev   devpts
nodev   usbdevfs
nodev   usbfs


Edit - Looks like I have /sbin/mkfs.ext3, perhaps I don't understand /proc/filesystems.  Will be figured out when I'm not drinking beer (or when nightwulf does it for me)

[nightwulf]

I'd happily offer to recompile the kernel, but you'd need to be at the server with a backup on disk in case something fucks up. That and you probably don't have kernel sources lying around with your girly-ass RedHat distro!

[Big Hath]

last time I recompiled a kernel, I woke up in a dusty alley in Tijuana

[Gantry]

I'd happily offer to recompile the kernel, but you'd need to be at the server with a backup on disk in case something fucks up. That and you probably don't have kernel sources lying around with your girly-ass RedHat distro!

Well, grabbing the kernel source isn't a problem nor is apt-get to get redhat's kernel source.  I can compile the kernel, I'm just lazy.  Two things I would definitely like to add are ext3 & support for USB hard drives (and whatever USB 2.0 controllers I decide to put in there) - it would be nice to have a better backup system in place. 

Perhaps we should have another "taco tuesday maintenance night" like last time where we got the forums/wikis upgraded in one night.  I can work on another wiki upgrade (including mysql 4/5 install for the latest mediawiki upgrade) while you can get kernel 2.6 up and running.  I'll do it onsite incase the kernel boot goes all sad on us.  What say you? 

Fuck, I may put another HD in there as well to do software RAID.  One more point of failure in case the dee-nee hard disk blows up...

[Gantry]

And before I get a scolding from nightwulf, I should clarify that I would install a separate mysql 4/5 instance on a different port and leave the forums on the old mysql.  Assuming that's possible of course, I haven't looked into it that much...

[nightwulf]

Why do that? SMF runs fine on MySQL 4/5 as far as i know.

[Gantry]

It does, but I wasn't intending on doing an in-place upgrade.  Maybe get it running and move one db at a time over...

So how does your schedule look?  If you are free tomorrow then maybe I'll plan a "taco night" (assuming we have a taco) at the office to start upgrading....