Help Slashdot Test Our New Data Center 308
After many years of living in California, Slashdot is preparing to move to a new data center in Chicago, and we need your help. We have our new site running a dump of our database from a few days ago. You can hit it at beta.slashdot.org. Please go there, post comments, submit stories, and do whatever you do normally. Or maybe abnormally — run crawlers, write poll spamming robots or something. If you find any crazy issues, please submit them to our sourceforge tracker. If you're curious, the new system features 18 2x quad-core 2.3 GHz webservers each with 8 gigs of RAM, and 4 quad-core 2.3 GHz databases with 16 gigs of RAM.
new account (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Obligitory (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Tracerouted (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Abnormally? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:More info about the hardware? (Score:5, Informative)
Dual Quad Core Intel E5345 with RAID 1 of 2xSATA drives
On the Database boxes
Single Quad Core Intel E5345 with RAID 5 of 7xSAS drives w/ a hot spare
All machines are 2xGigE connected to cabinet switches which are 10G connected to our cores and our Dual 10G uplinks
Re:Tracerouted (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Slashdot hardware specs... (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Power consumption? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Obligitory (Score:2, Informative)
$ lynx -dump -head http://beta.slashdot.org/ [slashdot.org] | grep Server
Server: Apache/1.3.41 (Unix) mod_perl/1.31-rc4
So that's one question answered :-)
Re:Tracerouted (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Weaker Databases? (Score:2, Informative)
So I'm not surprised.
Re:Power consumption? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Ah, the Data Center robbery center of America! (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Obligitory (Score:5, Informative)
Looks like they're running OpenBSD of some sort.
Re:new account (Score:3, Informative)
mine was low 6 digits..
the rest were in the high 6 digits...
tried with wand asking, enabled and disables, as well as 'public terminal' checked, no dice, can't log in with opera at all.
Re:Obligitory (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Tracerouted (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Tracerouted (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Power consumption? (Score:2, Informative)
It's sorta like, there's 22 guys. 18 of 'em ain't missing nothing, but the other four only have one nut but have more endurance. Though the analogy is a bit off.
Re:Tracerouted (Score:2, Informative)
Latency! That ain't latency:
Figures courtesy of tracepath. The packets have paddled across the Pacific.