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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. Flying Penguin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Penguins CAN fly afterall

    1. Re:Flying Penguin by fafaforza · · Score: 3, Funny

      Can you imagine a Beowulf cluste.... oh, no, that would be just down right dangerous.

  2. Crash by Krast0r · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lucky it was the linux kernel, had it been Windows the fate of the plane may well have been sealed.

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  3. Server moved. News at 11. by bigtallmofo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wouldn't you just love to see the news stories that CmdrTaco reject this morning in favor of this one?

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  4. Obl simpsons quote by Psionicist · · Score: 4, Funny

    Gates: You know Ballmer, I think I'll donate a million dollars to the local orphange . . . When a pengiun fly.
    *Both laugh as an airborne pengiun suddenly "flies" by*
    Ballmer: Will you be donating that million dollars now sir?

  5. But the question is... by Vorondil28 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...did anyone die of dysentery? Or maybe typhoid fever? For me it was always dysentery though.

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  6. 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.

  7. Of course! by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny


    Aren't all .org sites were supposed to be in Oregon?

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  8. Oregon Trail by bunnyman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Linus has dysentery.

  9. Heh by OverlordQ · · Score: 3, Funny

    I love the caption to this pic, yea . . safe and snug if you drive 10 mph the whole way and take no corners.

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  10. Back of the envelope. by reality-bytes · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Just did a quick calculation for a Turbo Skylane gph into mpg (assume static weather etc) and it works out around 14MPG.

    Now, I'm pretty sure there are a good few SUVs / pickups etc on the US market that do that sort of economy.

    The economy of the Cessna looks even better when you consider it can take the shortest route (staying VFR and barring airspace restrictions) whereas the SUV has to 'dog-leg' around the road network to get where it wants to be. Plus the Skylane consumption is more or less constant. An SUV's consumption can be expected to spike when starting/stopping in traffic.

    Sure, you could give it to a courier but I honestly can't think of a single one I would trust with an important server.

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  11. Too many eggs in one basket by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I used to laugh at Microsoft's amateur network topology. They always made the mistake of clustering everything in to one place, where single points of failure would take out 3/4th of their net.

    So, we've got master.kernel.org along with what looks like an impressive part of mozilla.org... what else is going in there?

    1. 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.

  12. Re:Server moved. News at 11. by ergo98 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Wouldn't you just love to see the news stories that CmdrTaco reject this morning in favor of this one?

    I would love to see the rejected stories. Slashdot should publish rejected stories via a voluntary feed, and let us (the readership) choose what is important and interesting or not. Obviously it would be vulnerable to spamming and trolling, but both could largely be taken care of with a half decent bayesian filter.

    Come on Taco - do it.

  13. 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).

  14. Why move from California to Oregon? by Kirkoff · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think the light went on in their mind!

    Q: How many Californians does it take to change a light bulb?

    A: Six. One to turn the bulb, one for support, and four to relate to the experience.

    Q: How many Oregonians does it take to screw in a light bulb?

    A: Five. One to change the bulb and four more to chase off the Californians who have come up to relate to the experience.

    -

    So what it's lame? At least it's on topic -- sort of. Shut up.

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  15. 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).