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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. Power consumption? by Anne_Nonymous · · Score: 5, Interesting

    > 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.

    What's the power consumption on this set up?

  2. More info about the hardware? by Joe+The+Dragon · · Score: 4, Interesting

    AMD or INTEL?

    What is the raid setup?

    Hardware raid? raid 5? raid 6? raid 50? others?

    SAS? scsi?

    MB chipset?

    How are they linked to each other Dual or more teamed gig-e

    10 gig-e?

    others?

  3. Re:Obligitory by krgallagher · · Score: 4, Interesting
    "But does it run linux?"

    I know that was meant to be a joke, but that is my question. What is the OS? What is the Database engine? What is the web server? Are you using a load balancer? Details! I want details!

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  4. Pictures? by Matt+Perry · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Some pictures of the new setup would be great.

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  5. IPv6 please by ptudor · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Can you please start listening on a v6 address?