[OSM-dev] your new sysadmins

[spaetz]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 06:59:58PM +0100, Tom Hughes wrote:
> DNS changed - not sure how long it will take for Bytemark to start
> announcing it, but hopefully it won't be too long.

I'll wait a couple of days until it has propagated and set up the host then, thank you.

> Long term, does it actually make sense to move dev and make the
> current dev server a t at h server? Is is actually up to the job even
> if everything else is removed?

> In other words might it make more sense to move the t at h functionality
> elsewhere and leave that as the dev box.

Good question :-). And honestly I don't know what to answer here. What seems clear is that dev and t at h on one machine doesn't seem to work well (one being a production server and one non-critical, experimental). Currently Frederik Ramm tries to get hold of db2 as a "new" dev server, AFAIK, so this box could focus on producing beautiful tiles. Nick Hill said there is money for new RAM and he wanted to install it (possibly during 11 Aug meeting), he also talked about replaceing motherboard and CPU at the same time as it apparently had been flakey at times (I couldn't replicate that yet, though). However, I have nothing heard of that since then. Are there any plans for that? More RAM especially would be nice for caching data base tabes and tile files.

Unless we plan to dramatically improve our services (selectable transparent overlays with POIs anyone?), I think we can work along quite happily for a while on this box (although a multi core would be nice for a server running a db and a webserver). It is certainly busy (avg load of 2), disk rotate all the time, and there is no memory left, but it manages... In case we plan to move the SOTM stuff too, we could also get rid of a running postgres, and a running mongrel (some ruby server stuff?) which currently consume RAM.

spaetz
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