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Help Slashdot Test Our New Data Center

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the it-seems-like-only-yesterday dept.

After many years of living in California, Slashdot is preparing to move to a new data center in Chicago, and we need your help. We have our new site running a dump of our database from a few days ago. You can hit it at beta.slashdot.org. Please go there, post comments, submit stories, and do whatever you do normally. Or maybe abnormally — run crawlers, write poll spamming robots or something. If you find any crazy issues, please submit them to our sourceforge tracker. If you're curious, the new system features 18 2x quad-core 2.3 GHz webservers each with 8 gigs of RAM, and 4 quad-core 2.3 GHz databases with 16 gigs of RAM.

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  1. Abnormally? by FooAtWFU · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Run abnormally? So, throw a few of these out there?

    ab -n 10000 -c 10 http://beta.slashdot.org/
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  2. Weaker Databases? by TheNinjaroach · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you're curious, the new system features 18 2x quad-core 2.3 GHz webservers each with 8 gigs of RAM, and 4 quad-core 2.3 GHz databases with 16 gigs of RAM. I read this as "two quad-cores per webserver, and a single quad-core per database." Is this correct?

    I was always under the impression that database servers needed more CPU horsepower than webservers.
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