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[BDawk]

Hey! Talk nerd stuff on your own time!

[Mr. Blubbo]

After you reconfigure the kernels, can I eat the unpopped ones?

[Gantry]

Site went down again yesterday pm, thanks to Ultimate for paging me, as I was at a customer.  I definitely have to figure out a solution to this problem.  We pretty much run out of available memory (RAM) on the system if it gets too busy.  The problem is that this shitbag motherboard often only reports 256MB of the 384MB in the system.  It takes many reboots to get it fixed and if I'm booting remotely (like yesterday, was at a customer) I simply cannot wait...

So Dee-Nee needs a hardware upgrade.  Not sure if I want to do a whole shebang upgrade at this point or simply find the cheapest and easiest way to get more RAM in here without changing the software at all...

I don't know why the motherboard is so picky with RAM, it should take basic PC-133 memory.  It's a picky little bitch though, and if I replace the mobo I likely have to replace the processor since Slot1 hardware ain't terribly easy to find.  Which means I'm pretty much swapping out every piece of hardware in it.  If I do that I might as well go new and start an OS install from scratch. 

So that is where dee-nee stands for now.  To make sure I don't exhaust memory, I'll stop using it as a workstation from here on out.  Going into X definitely saps the memory and if I forget to close out before I leave, it's much more likely to OOM...

[Gantry]

I found that magical combo of RAM sticks that gives me the full 512MB that this system allows.  This is huge...

[Guy Smiley]

current server details please.  Slot1 is that intel?  I can never remember.  My "server" is an athlon thunderbird 900mhz Slot (1 or A, whichever is AMD), and I'm able to put 768mb or RAM without any problems...

[nightwulf]

What exactly are the specs of the server? Hell, I probably have something comparable lying around ...

[Gantry]

Dee-Nee Server Hardware Specs

* Pentium III - 600mhz (Slot 1)
* 512MB (as of today, usually 256 or 384) of PC100 SDRAM
* ASUS P2-99B motherboard
* 20GB Maxtor IDE hard drive (I think 7200rpm)
* Generic CD-RW for nightly backups where I hardly swap discs
* $5 realtek 10/100 NIC
* ATI Rage IIc AGP video

Dee-Nee Software Specs

* Redhat 7.3 with full updates (including fedoralegacy)
* 2.4.20-43.7 kernel
* Apache 1.3.27-9
* MySQL 3.23.58-1.73.9
* Php 4.4.2 (hand compiled)
* Perl-5.6.1-38.0.7.3.3
* SMF 1.1 RC2

[Gantry]

Site's been up since 10am and we have 63MB of free RAM and zero swap used.  Massive, massive bonertown...

[nightwulf]

Hell, other than the RAM, the PC you handed me in Columbutt has better specs. I could throw that one back together, and find some RAM for it ...

[Gantry]

It's not worth swapping our for a marginal gain in speed...  Heck if the PCI ordering is flaky or the IDE is enumated differently I may have to troubleshoot and stuff.  Plus I'd have to reconfigure my sound and stuff...  I have a few machines that are right around that range, heck sometimes we throw them out.  I fear change, that's all...

If I do anything that involves a mobo swap, I'm going with a fresh install of CentOS 4.  But the RAM upgrade makes me so happy that Dee-Nee will last in its current form for at least another 7-8 years.  I would love to do software RAID though, a hard disk crash would be bad...

[fknmclane]

Dee-Nee will last in its current form for at least another 7-8 years.

You and I will have about a million million posts by then.

[malnuboy]

I'll JPeg that over to you

[fknmclane]

Site went down again yesterday pm, thanks to Ultimate for paging me, as I was at a customer.

I was actually online for this one.  My whole day at work was ruined because dee nee was down for a whopping half hour.  Pretty nuts.

[nomaaa]

Site went down again yesterday pm, thanks to Ultimate for paging me, as I was at a customer.

I was actually online for this one.  My whole day at work was ruined because dee nee was down for a whopping half hour.  Pretty nuts.

i came home to this. and boy was i pissed. it almost ruined my whole day.

[Gantry]

Swap finally got touched, but the system is moving along quite nicely with the 512MB in there.  The golden age of Dee-Nee is upon us...

[Mike D.]

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