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Slashdot is Moving. Help Load Test!

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the please-wear-a-hardhat dept.

We're moving the Slashdot cluster from Exodus East to Exodus West in the next couple days. In good Slashdot Tradition, we've opened up brak.slashdot.org for you to help load test the new cluster. Currently its almost an exact copy of our existing setup (missing a couple of webheads which will be up soon). The actual move will occur late at night (most likely tonight or tomorrow depending on how things go), and will hopefully involve only a few minutes of downtime as we copy the last of the data over the continent. Thanks for your help.

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  1. What should be changed.. by edmz · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ..is slashdots design. Its time, dont you think ?

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    1. Re:What should be changed.. by ericdano · · Score: 3, Interesting
      YES! I second this proposal!

      Do we hear a third vote?

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    2. Re:What should be changed.. by Tranvisor · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Why? I have always liked it. I don't see any specific problems, do you?

      If it ain't broke, don't fuck with it. :)

  2. nows a good time to explain..... by _ph1ux_ · · Score: 4, Interesting

    .....the hardware required to run slashdot.

    Its been asked by me before - and I am sure many others...

    can you please give us a rundown on what Slashdot physically and technically looks like?

    1. Re:nows a good time to explain..... by aaarrrgggh · · Score: 5, Interesting

      ...last modified 6/13/00

      Maybe an update is in order?

  3. hey Taco! by tps12 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Since you're apparently in a "meta" mood, can you tell me what happened to Jon Katz? I miss him.

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    1. Re:hey Taco! by Iamthefallen · · Score: 4, Interesting

      That's what he should've been doing here. Some of his "tech from a normal persons view" articles were actually quite entertaining and well written. General technology articles and media commentary, sure. Problem was he attempted some socio-political commentary aswell as some in-depth technical stuff on Slashdot without being able to pull it off.

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  4. Serious question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Does this mean that response times will be worse for Europeans? Or does modern routing make that irrelevant?

  5. Wierd thing just happened by elliotj · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't know it's related but I just saw an Ask Slashdot about daylight savings pop up. When I clicked through it gave me an error and now it's gone.

    Does this have anything to do with the test? Or with Daylight Savings perhaps?

  6. Disappearing story by operagost · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does this have anything to do with the "story" on DST that disappeared mysteriously?

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  7. The wonder of unsyncronised data... by Chicane-UK · · Score: 2, Interesting

    On the 'new' server, I have five Moderator points which I actually spent this morning on this server :)

    Ch-ching!

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  8. Recipe for saving uptime by LinuxGeek · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I once moved a server by dropping to init 1; setting HD sleep timeout to 5sec and moving the sever and extended runtime ups as a unit. That way we kept the 300 day uptime. :) Yes, it was a short move and only took about 30 minutes.

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  9. *laughs* by RinkSpringer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Humm, I have moderator access on the new Slashdot and not here...

    Secondly, did you know 'brak' is Dutch, and literally means 'something that sucks'? Seems appropriate since people complain it is slashdotted [even though it works for me!]

  10. I likes the new slashdot! by cygnus · · Score: 3, Interesting
    You have 30 Moderator Points! Use 'em or lose 'em!
    schwing! since this is a beta, can i moderate irrationally with impunity?
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  11. MRTG Report of the beating... by chachi5000 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Could we see a MRTG report or other type of traffic analysis when you're done? I love to see pretty charts of servers getting beat up.

  12. Re:Load test is inverted by saskboy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't even see why they need a live load test. They should be able to tell from the stats on the main slashdot page how much bandwidth they will need to run the new site.
    In fact I've wondered just how /. avoids the "effect" while, sites they link to go down. Is /. the only decent server on the planet?

    What are you doing posting here anyway? Get over to the new site and help break it with everyone else. ;-)

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  13. Exodus by Ratbert42 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Holy crap! Exodus is still in business?

  14. uh oh... by dfj225 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    500 Internal Server Error on brak...looks like it could be a problem.

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