Re: Load on udd.d.o

2011-10-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Bdale Garbee writes: > I wouldn't say "never", but the glory days of the "open source > investment bubble" when companies were jockeying for attention in a > rapidly growing market and had relatively large budgets to apply to > speculative investments are just gone. We're currently instead in a

Re: Load on udd.d.o

2011-10-25 Thread Bdale Garbee
andr...@an3as.eu (Andreas Tille) writes: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 06:00:33PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: >> Debian got a lot of new machines by donations in the past, machines that >> had been stocked with the best and newest parts at that time. The time >> we got those donations is over and

Re: Load on udd.d.o

2011-10-24 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 24. Oktober 2011, Peter Palfrader wrote: > The other problem is that ever since the debconf and debian accounts got > merged, we have no clue whatsoever about how much money we actually have > for debian and for hardware. Uhm, why? The DebConf budget is well known, so I don't see

Re: Load on udd.d.o

2011-10-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 06:00:33PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > Debian got a lot of new machines by donations in the past, machines that > had been stocked with the best and newest parts at that time. The time > we got those donations is over and will most probably never ever come > back. I

Re: Load on udd.d.o

2011-10-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 05:17:19PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > The other problem is that ever since the debconf and debian accounts got > merged, we have no clue whatsoever about how much money we actually have for > debian and for hardware. This should not be your problem. The interface for

Re: Load on udd.d.o

2011-10-24 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Mon Oct 24, 2011 at 17:17:19 +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > Which brings us to a third part. If we actually wanted to replace everything > that's older than say 3 or even 5 years with new systems, we couldn't afford > it. Not by a long shot. Debian got a lot of new machines by donation

Re: Load on udd.d.o

2011-10-24 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Mon, 24 Oct 2011, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On Mon, 24 Oct 2011, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > OK, I see. But given that Debian has some spare money, why don't we > renew those such machines that are very old, out of warranty, etc? We are purchasing a new lists and new syncproxy.eu/ftp.d.o box at this

Re: Load on udd.d.o

2011-10-24 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 24/10/11 at 15:24 +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > On Mon, 24 Oct 2011, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > Also, wouldn't it be possible to just add more RAM to samosa ? It only > > has 6 GB, and RAM isn't that expensive nowadays. With <$1000, we could > > probably get a significant performance increas

Re: Load on udd.d.o

2011-10-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 02:59:18PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Anyway, I agree that UDD cannot be fast by design. We just need to make > it sufficiently fast to be useful. One way to move forward could be to > have two instances of UDD: > - one hosted on samosa, that only does the importing and

Re: Load on udd.d.o

2011-10-24 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Mon, 24 Oct 2011, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Also, wouldn't it be possible to just add more RAM to samosa ? It only > has 6 GB, and RAM isn't that expensive nowadays. With <$1000, we could > probably get a significant performance increase. I don't think it'd be easy, no. Many DDs seem to not und

Re: Load on udd.d.o

2011-10-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 02:17:05PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > On Mon, 24 Oct 2011, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > Whatever can be done - I'm in favour of it because Blends tools heavily > > relay on UDD and are currently beaten very hard by slow response. > > You probably picked the wrong tool/s

Re: Load on udd.d.o

2011-10-24 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 24/10/11 at 14:16 +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > Hi, > > [Please note that this is my very personal opinion!] > > On Mon Oct 24, 2011 at 10:06:11 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > > On Sun, 23 Oct 2011, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > > > >

Re: Load on udd.d.o

2011-10-24 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Mon, 24 Oct 2011, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 08:48:16AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > > Is this something that the publicity team could help with; putting out > > > a call for donations like was done for snapshot.debian.org? > > > > Before going down that path, DSA a

Re: Load on udd.d.o

2011-10-24 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, [Please note that this is my very personal opinion!] On Mon Oct 24, 2011 at 10:06:11 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Oct 2011, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > >> But the main problem, anyway, is that samosa is a bit low on RAM (only

Re: Load on udd.d.o

2011-10-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 08:48:16AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > Is this something that the publicity team could help with; putting out > > a call for donations like was done for snapshot.debian.org? > > Before going down that path, DSA and/or HW coordination decides a) that > they want a n

Re: Load on udd.d.o

2011-10-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:06:11AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Oct 2011, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > >> But the main problem, anyway, is that samosa is a bit low on RAM (only 6 > >> GB), and a bit slow on I/O. In the long term, it

Re: Load on udd.d.o

2011-10-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Peter Palfrader wrote: > On Sun, 23 Oct 2011, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > >> But the main problem, anyway, is that samosa is a bit low on RAM (only 6 >> GB), and a bit slow on I/O. In the long term, it would be useful to move >> UDD to a faster box... > > We probably do

Re: Load on udd.d.o

2011-10-23 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Sun, 23 Oct 2011, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > But the main problem, anyway, is that samosa is a bit low on RAM (only 6 > GB), and a bit slow on I/O. In the long term, it would be useful to move > UDD to a faster box... We probably don't have anything like that tho. -- |

Re: Load on udd.d.o

2011-10-23 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 09:53:58 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Now bugs.cgi indeed doesn't abort anymore; but it timeouts later > > (which was the same during the better part of the last week). > I've done a vacuum full, and removed the data about etch and lenny from > the tables. This seems to hav

Re: Load on udd.d.o

2011-10-23 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 23/10/11 at 00:44 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:38:04 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > ]] Lucas Nussbaum > > | In the meantime, DSA, could you reboot samosa (easy option) or restart > > | apache and postgres and clean up the remaining processes (if any)? > > > I've

Re: Load on udd.d.o

2011-10-22 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:38:04 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Lucas Nussbaum > | In the meantime, DSA, could you reboot samosa (easy option) or restart > | apache and postgres and clean up the remaining processes (if any)? > I've killed a bunch of postgres processes, I think apache should reco

Re: Load on udd.d.o

2011-10-22 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Lucas Nussbaum | In the meantime, DSA, could you reboot samosa (easy option) or restart | apache and postgres and clean up the remaining processes (if any)? I've killed a bunch of postgres processes, I think apache should recover by itself. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's jus

Re: Load on udd.d.o

2011-10-22 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 22/10/11 at 18:51 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi aborts with > "Current system load (40.27) is too high. Please retry later!" > > The load seems to be increasing, it started out at ~25 some hours > ago. > > I'm not sure who has access on that machine, but maybe

Load on udd.d.o

2011-10-22 Thread gregor herrmann
http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi aborts with "Current system load (40.27) is too high. Please retry later!" The load seems to be increasing, it started out at ~25 some hours ago. I'm not sure who has access on that machine, but maybe someone could take a look before it comes to a grinding halt :)