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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!
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Three hams!!!
You guys got another one called Zorak?
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Since you're apparently in a "meta" mood, can you tell me what happened to Jon Katz? I miss him.
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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
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All I see is duplicate stories. Seems like business as usual.
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 (?).
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Maybe you could read the first link on the right side of your screen labelled "FAQ". If you are sure that it has been asked my many others, it probably has, thus it is a "Frequently Asked Question". In case you can't find that link, try clicking here to find out what is powering /.
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Check out CmdrTaco's Journal for the answer. OSDN is consolidating servers.
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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What kind of hardware does Slashdot run on?
Physically, it looks like this. And this. And this also.
Technically? I haven't got a clue.
Glad to see Slashdot finally mirroring a site they link to for once...
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.
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Maybe an update is in order?
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?
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Interestingly, I used all 30 points, did my Meta-modding, and then came back a bit later to find I then had 60 points!
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