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Slashdot is Moving. Help Load Test!
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.
Load test indeed!
Someone please post mirrors!
One future, two choices. Oppose them or let them destroy us.
..is slashdots design. Its time, dont you think ?
This paid my last vacation, it mi
.....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?
It'll only take three hams to kill it.
Three hams!!!
You guys got another one called Zorak?
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
Since you're apparently in a "meta" mood, can you tell me what happened to Jon Katz? I miss him.
Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)
Does this mean that response times will be worse for Europeans? Or does modern routing make that irrelevant?
Here's the text of the website, just in case it gets slashdotted:
... now! ...
Have you Meta Moderated recently?
This page was generated by a Flock of Elite Mummies for American AC in Paris (230456).
Smells like...
NewsPosted by krow on Tuesday October 29, @09:45
from the 40-thousand-years-we-have-been-painting-in-caves dept.
Is this working, fee, fi, foe, fum....
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Apple: Darwin 6.0.2 for x86 Released!?!?!?!
OS X (Apple)Posted by pudge on Monday October 28, @16:24
from the foo-on-you-in-th'-hizouse-yo-yo dept.
Jos Louis writes "Apple has released the x86 version 6.0.2 of Darwin, the FreeBSD-based core of Mac OS X Jaguar. You can download the bootable ISO from here." Commence the raising of the roof
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
All I see is duplicate stories. Seems like business as usual.
Wouldn't it be a better load test to make www.slashdot.org the load testing server, and old.slashdot.org the server to go to if something breaks?
Honestly, you aren't getting a good load test by putting up a link (at least, not a good 'slashdot' loadtest).
Yeah, I'm a Republican AND a geek. It is possible.
I checked out the brak./. and found old messages in my inbox. I'd prefer not to get deluged with old messages after the move occurs.
Just thought you should know in case you didn't know already (?).
What is music when you despise all sound?
I live in LA, this is about twice as snappy as the current server is. time wget slashdot.org is about .9 ms slower than brak. Sux0rs to be east coast ;)
Photos.
As of now, the slashdot stats box is reporting over 405 days of uptime. You're not going to lose that over a move are you?! *sob* I hope not.
"It's the little touches that make a future solid enough to be destroyed" --William S. Bourroughs
Check out CmdrTaco's Journal for the answer. OSDN is consolidating servers.
Quick!! Get all your meta discussions in while there still is time!
To: Tech department
From: Management
Moving all the data from the East to the West is NOT what we meant when we said "copyleft"!
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"You are not remembered for doing what is expected of you." - Atul Chitnis
but this is unbefsckingleivable!
Is this a reference to ?!?!?!?!
:)
Heh. Adult Swim. Next time are you going to name the server "Master Shake"?!?!?!?!
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?
Glad to see Slashdot finally mirroring a site they link to for once...
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.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain
If you are a moderator, you have 5 fresh points waiting for you on the new server. You can use them there without affecting the number of points you have on this server. One of the very few times you get 10 points instead of 5.
Just raise the taxes on crack.
Just got my first mod points from the new site. I wish Slashdot would move more often :)
The new server is kinda having the crap beat out of it right now making ping comparisions a little irrelivant, however I find that generally traffic to and form Europe varies little based on geographic location. Basically, your signal is going to have to hop around europe till it hits a transcontential cable, then back around till it hits exodus. Most of the time taken will be in getting the signal to their network, where specifically in their network it has to go will make little difference.
brak.slashdot.org is apparently generated via a pack of "Flying Albino Monkeys", whereas the existing server is created via a "Team of Elite Squirrels". Anyone got some performance metrics of Monkeys vs Squirrels, and more importantly, can Monkeys be overclocked?
John Maynard Keynes: "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?"
So, I think what they really meant it to say was:
You have 30 Moderator Points! Abuse 'em or lose 'em!
Too... much... power... Anyone else feeling drunk?
pi = 3.141592653589793helpimtrappedinauniversefactory7
What better way to field test a server than to give every /. member 30 points and watch them waste several hours loading and reloading to mod!! Not to mention all the people who only read occasionally and are showing up just to see the fireworks....
Cogito ergo sum in Slashdot.
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.
Holy crap! Exodus is still in business?
It seems that all the insane people are now on the new server. The mods being thrown around do not seem to make any sense.
Especially when two of my posts (very on topic, legitimate) were both modded +2 troll.... Odd....
Cogito ergo sum in Slashdot.
I think the raging debate over daylight savings time was just too much for the poor server.
Interestingly, I used all 30 points, did my Meta-modding, and then came back a bit later to find I then had 60 points!
The Humblest Mollusk on the Net
Brak: Faithfully served pages from 12:11MST to 2:38MST. We shall miss him.
Things you think are in the Constitution, but are not.
You'll find a few of these posts on the brak server itself (when it comes back to life). The code went something like this:
/ 2028219&mode=thread&tid=124" & [--- Remove the extra space in the middle ---]
while [ 1 ]
do
wget "http://brak.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/29
echo "hello"
done
I run that on an Ultra Enterprise 10000 with a 100mbit/full network drop (not the best network connection but my gigabit ether boxes were doing "real" work). Because this system had 4gb of RAM in it, Maxusers was very high, which resulted in the maxprocs being very high. And the kernel seemed to work very well under that kind of pressure.
Then, for fun, add in another box or two. Presto! Instant simulated Slashdot effect. But then again, I happen to be using a MASSIVE network connection from a very well-known telco. So that gives me a big advantage over most people.
Lesson learned: Wow. I can slashdot Slashdot itself.
Well, unless Taco's decided Brak's had enough of a workout and taken it down without notice, I'd say we've been successful.
Once again, the power of countless geeks wasting time online has been demonstrated. We must always remember that this power can be used for good... or evil....
Good judgment comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgment.
Slashdotting a Slashdot Server in just over 3 hours? Wow...
For some reason when I log onto the brak site, it says I have one new message but in fact there are no new messages! And for some reason, a tab for user number 178529 shows up in my account page in addition to my own information. All of this seems to have infested my account on the old server too. (This is real, I am not trying to make a lame joke.)
Could this be a newly identified issue with the server move?