On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 11:25 +0200, Jens Frank wrote:
Anthere asked how much money we need to run the
system
for the rest of the year, so we took a look at the
servers we have and at the growth we have seen over the
last years.
The results can be seen at
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_provisional_budget
and I invite eveyone to have a look at it and provide comments.
I've added my opinion that the NFS-related problems are really a
software problem, similar with the missing MySQL load balancing. The
more money&hardware the better of course, but there are situations where
the hardware-only approach simply fails or hits a hard wall. I think
we're in such a situation.
This doesn't mean that i think we don't need money, but the decision on
what to spend it on is a hard one with such a complex system. At some
stage bounties for specific important software development tasks might
buy more performance than heaps of hardware waiting for better software.
My Coda tests went very well so far. I've moved about 70% of my home dir
to Coda for testing. I plan to do some wiki stress testing locally next,
if that goes well i'd like to run
test.wikipedia.org from coda next (the
server is set up already on zwinger).
Gabriel Wicke