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Kernel.org Moves to Oregon

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the only-way-to-travel dept.

Bryce writes "Looks like the main kernel.org machine has moved to the Oregon State University Open Source Lab. "Last night, Peter Anvin took master.kernel.org (hera) down and handed it off to his friend, Javier. This morning, Javier flew it up here to Corvallis in his Cessna Skylane. This is the first time the OSL has had a server hand-delivered by plane, and so we were giddy as schoolgirls." Kees Cook, the senior IT guy at OSDL helped them get it installed and configured."

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  1. Unimpressive by suwain_2 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Was this all of kernel.org that was moved over? I noticed no interruption in service.

    However, kernel.org mentions that, as of April, it was being served from "quad Opteron servers, each with 24 GB of RAM and 10 TB of disk." Bandwidth shows that they're routinely pushing almost 300Mbps of traffic.

    The photos show a single, unimpressive 2U machine. Can someone clarify exactly what was moved over, and why?

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    1. Re:Unimpressive by kveton · · Score: 5, Informative

      Head-lines crack me up ... it _sounds_ like the whole of kernel.org moved over to the OSL.

      Yes, this is the machine that acts as the "master" in terms of it replicates out to zeus1 and zeus2. The reason it was moved was that hera was hosted behind a T1 and the OSL offered to provide backup services. Its just a 2U box and its not the entire kernel.org ... however, its a pretty important piece.

  2. Re:Obl simpsons quote by Zarhan · · Score: 2, Informative

    Funny and all, but I think he already did that donation.

  3. Re:Heh by kveton · · Score: 2, Informative

    I drove slow and steady the whole way to the co-location facility. The machine didn't even budge (there is enough disk in there that its so heavy it can't move).

  4. Re:Too many eggs in one basket by kveton · · Score: 3, Informative

    master.kernel.org was down for over 12 hours while it was moved and nobody noticed because the front-ends were up and running (so nobody had to care). As for the Mozilla cluster, there is an identical one in California so even if the OSL facility goes down, life goes on.

  5. Re:strange route? by kveton · · Score: 5, Informative

    www.kernel.org != master.kernel.org

    www.kernel.org is comprised of two insanely beefy boxes (see www.kernel.org for the specs). master.k.o is just a 2U 3Ware box where things are built and shoved at the front-end "beefy boxes".

    master.k.o should be connected via I2 and www.kernel.org should not (as far as I know they don't have a path to Internet2 out of the ISC facilities).

  6. Re:Waste by dragonman97 · · Score: 4, Informative

    UPS. $210. 10:00AM next morning.

    UPS?! UPS?!!

    There's no way I would every trust something that important to UPS - I'd expect to find the thing with a switchblade in it, as someone had to use the package in 'self-defense' or the box would otherwise be bashed and beaten. If I absolutely had to ship it, I'd use DHL (formerly Airborne Express).