Hello all,
this is the second monthly report of the toolserver.
==SAN-System==
After some more work by Mark at the beginning of the month the SAN-system
(that's a disc-system in a network) is fully redundant now. Some more testing
by the roots is still needed, but more or less the SAN-extending is done.
==More memory==
The WMDE-chapter has bought some memory for some userland-servers and the HA-
nodes. Most of these systems are short of memory, so that should help us (in
case of the HA-nodes the memory-extending should make the nodes all HA again,
because at the moment if one of the node is away, the other crashs soon after
because of memory-shortness). The memory will be installed at the next visit
of Mark in the datacenter – this will cause some downtime (the roots hope to
learn about the visit soon enough so that we can message you all).
==Quota==
The roots are working to get the quota-system back in action. At the moment
many users do not have any quota (because of a bug in the account-creation-
script) and our disc-space for /home is quite full already. If you have a free
minute (no matter if you have a quota or not) please look in your home if
there are files which you not longer need and delete them (that's also good for
the backup-system); a good candidate are log- or tmp-files. Another mail will
be send as soon as the roots started to fix the quota-system.
==Interwikibot-ban==
Since 15th May the interwiki-bot-ban is finally in place. All long-running bots
are now run by the MMP interwikibot, which is organized by Toto Azéro at the
moment. I disabled some bots already that were still running.
==Hardware-buying back at the WMDE==
After some disagreements between the WMDE and me about the funding and the
future of the toolserver (and the buying of new servers), I moved the
responsibility of hardware-buying back to the WMDE. So WMDE will decide if and
what hardware we will get in future (so complain there when you think the TS
is too slow).
==Still waiting for dumps==
We are still waiting for dumps of s6 (soon we will reach the 2-month-mark) and
s2.
==How to make MMPs more popular==
There is a discussion [1] going on the mailinglist about making MMPs more
popular; some think that a renaming would be a good idea while others think
that making non-MMPs more unpopular would be a better way.
*[1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-l/2012-May/004977.html
==SGE-upgrade/Linux will come back soon==
Merlissimo compiled/installed successfully a upgrade of SGE in parallel to the
old installation. We will do the switch soon (I will send a announcement-mail
before that) and when the switch is done I will enable the login on the linux-
boxes (yarrow and nightshade) again.
==User-statistic==
The TS has 377 active users at the moment.
The next monthly report will be send around 1. July. If you would like to help
in the creation-process, please see [1].
*[1] https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Monthly_report
Sincerely,
DaB.
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Hello all,
in 3h the 15th of May will be over and with it the time span you (the TS-
users) have had to organize and create a MMP for future interwiki-bot-running.
No process was done (even after a few users sent mails to the mailinglist) and
so it is up to me now to handle the situation: I created the MMP
"langlinksbot" now. Only this MMP is allowed to run (non-testing) interwiki-
bots on the toolserver.
If you run a interwiki-link-bot on the TS, please stop it now because it is
against the rules to run it; there will be time until Sunday 24:00 UTC to do
it yourself, after Sunday the roots will disable bots when they find them.
To let the TS not be completely interwiki-bot-less, I added Toto Azéro as the
only member of the MMP. I will not add other users at the moment; organize it
first!
To summarize again which bots are NOT affected:
* Any bot that does not interwiki(/langlink)-links, or
* bots that run only for short time, or
* bots which are run by other MMPs
Sincerely,
DaB.
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Hello all,
the resources on the TS are free, but limited; so we all have to use the
resources fair. Some limits (like memory-usage) are set and controlled by the
system, but others are not and it is in the responsibility of every single
user to make sure to not mis- or overuse resources.
So it is for example NOT a good idea to run 200 processes in parallel to get
more CPU-resources than you would normally get. And it is not a good idea to
use a amount of memory which is just below the slayer-daemon-limit without any
purpose.
Sincerely,
DaB.
P.S: It is totally in the rules to disable a user-account because of resource-
misusing.
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Hello all,
I will give the SGE-update (see my mail from last time [1]) another try this
week and so I hereby announce downtime of the SGE-system on Thursday between
19:00 and 23:00 UTC. If the update is not successful on Thursday I will give
it another try at Friday between 19:00 and 23:00 UTC.
During the downtime no SGE-process will start on any server, while
processes/jobs that had started already will continue to run; jobs which are
queued at the beginning of the maintenance-window will start after the window
is done.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
Sincerely,
DaB.
P.S: Just to be clear: There will be ONLY maintenance on the SGE, not on the
databases like last time.
[1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-l/2012-March/004802.html
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