New Database Server 6
The new database server dors is up and running smoothly. Here’s a bit of information about it:
- Hardware
- Dual Dual-Core Opteron 246 (four physical CPUs in two chips)
- 8GB RAM (we’ll be upgrading to 12GB RSN™)
- Five Ultra160 10k RPM disks using RAID 5
- Software
- OS: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE
- Running in amd64 mode
- 4BSD Scheduler
- DB: Mysql 4.1.16
- Statically Linked
- Using libthr
- OS: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE
Looks great! Performance feels better now and I have not seen a single Oops page yet! Nice quick upgrade, good job.
Opterons and Mysql 4.1 scares me. We had all kinds of problems with that during the campaign. But: 1) MySQL 4.1 was beta 2) We were running on Fedora 3) everything was PHP instead of Ruby on Rails!
Nicely done Robots! I’ll report any problems I see.
http://www.43people.com/index.html
Asks (politely) to “Change this error message for pages not found in public/404.html”
Out of curiosity, how utilized is this new hardware?
It is just barely utilized
Our previous database server ran into problems when it couldn’t fit enough of the database into memory so IO became a bottleneck. With a mirrored disk setup, this was no good.
Thanks for the info!