Re: hardware upgrade status

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 03:43:22PM -0400, David T-G wrote:
>Christopher (and everyone else) --
>
>...and then Christopher Faylor said...
>% 
>% As you can see, email seems to be working on the new system.
>% 
>% The old sourceware was a hodge podge of hand-built files installed in
>% nonstandard locations.  I changed that on the new sourceware.  It now
>[snip]
>
>Thanks so much for all of your work!  I can't wait for my next
>download :-)

For the curious, here are the specs on the new system.

We're in negotiations for more memory but this is how it looks now.
We haven't completed all of the software migration either.

cgf

----- Forwarded message from "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com> -----

From: "Frank Ch. Eigler"
To: Sourceware Overseers
Subject: sourceware hardware transition plan, part 1/N
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 17:46:32 -0400

Hi -

As many of you know, two IBM x3650 servers have been donated by Red
Hat to the sourceware project.  They've been waiting for our time to
configure them and migrate the content from the old machines over.

The migration will be non-trivial.  We're moving from RHEL4->RHEL6.  I
would like to move from unusual/obsolete services to mainstream ones
if at all possible, for simplicity of administration, and to reduce
exposure to vulnerabilities.  I would like to retire several old
services (leaving behind a read-only web mirror if appropriate).

As a first step, here is a draft of the overall "before & after".
Please let me know what parts may be incomplete or controversial.
After this is settled, I'll put forward a task list as to how to get
there.

        old:                          new:

hardware:
        server[1]+server[23]          server[45]
        no redundancy                 warm standby, ~identical servers
        dell 2850                     ibm x3650 M3
        500GB raid5                   2TB raid6
        16GB RAM                      24GB RAM
        4cpu*Xeon 3GHz                2cpu*4core*2thread 2.4GHz Xeon E5620
OS:
        rhel4 i686                    rhel6 x6-64
        iptables                      <same>
vcs:
        svn                           <same>
        git                           <same>
        cvs                           <same>
        cvsupd                        <retire>
misc:
        djbdns                        bind
        proftpd                       <same>
        ntpd                          <same>
        rsync                         <same>
        mysql                         <same>
        gnats                         <retire>
        rssh                          <same>
mail:
        spamassassin                  <same>, focus on inbound mail
        clamav                        <same>
httpd:
        httpd 2.0                     httpd 2.2 + https
        multi-root (gcc/sware/ecos/+) <same>
        faq-o-matic                   mediawiki
        moinmoin                      mediawiki
        cvsweb                        viewvc
        gitweb                        <same>
        mnogosearch                   <same>
        bugzilla                      <same>
        content cvs                   git
projects:
        root users                    <same>
        project files                 <same>
        users                         <same>
        cron jobs                     <same>
        gcc, sourceware, infra        <same>
        gcc supybot                   <same>
        cygwin upset                  <same>


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