Re: rsync processes?

[Carl Malamud <xxxx@media.org>]

On Sep 7, 2008, at 4:40 PM, Aaron Swartz wrote:

> > we're just in the middle of a big transition, so mdkail is being  
> > extra
> > vigilant.  :)
>
> heh, ok. what's the transition?

oh, I had 30 old domains running on a dual-processor tatung at the end  
of last year.  we got them up on a donated jaguar mac server, then  
that wasn't enough horsepower.  so, when we got a little money, so we  
stupidly got an 8-core leopard mac server, which has all sorts of  
issues.

so, finally we put up a sunfire x4150 with 8 150 gbyte disk drives  
running ubuntu and paired that up with thumper.  so, we can now retire  
the POS macintosh servers.  I'll bring them back up here to sebastopol  
and make them a render farm or something for video.

long road, but the dual-processor tatung was a 1998 box and that had  
web sites from 1993 and non-web data from further back, so it was a  
hell of an upgrade.  we're now up to apache 2.0, real imap with  
dovecot, clamav, etc., etc.

upgrading is hard when you're dragging around 20 years of data.

Carl