From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_MISSING, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from sc.am (sc.am [66.247.109.82]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 74587ABB6F for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 00:25:02 -0500 (CDT) Received: (qmail 2362 invoked from network); 24 Aug 2002 05:24:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sc.am) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Aug 2002 05:24:53 -0000 Received: from 66.247.109.90 (SquirrelMail authenticated user gregg) by sc.am with HTTP; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 00:24:53 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <2799.66.247.109.90.1030166693.squirrel@sc.am> Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 00:24:53 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Upgrade, course of action. From: "Gregg" To: In-Reply-To: <02082320254900.01412@bugler> References: <2301.12.247.253.40.1030094569.squirrel@sc.am> <02082320254900.01412@bugler> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Cc: , , Reply-To: gregg@sc.am X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.7) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 1873eb2f-088c-412a-9531-d32430932433 X-Archives-Hash: f15404d12ee7744c65e71c609f8d76b7 Everyone keeps telling me how brave I am. I have to say, it doesnt seem that way to me. Ive got a second drive (exact mirror of the first, same size) rsyncing every night (over to another server). That is my current backup solution. I havent had to go to it once. Since I set this up as a server and started getting these users I havent had a single outage that wasnt a problem with power (we had 2 real bad storms over the last month that took out power for 5 hours each, my UPS only does 3 hours tops for the 3 systems it runs.) Other than that, it has run flawless, and you want brave. emerge -up world shows nothing right now. It is as up to date as possible without gcc 3.2. Not a single problem. Gregg > On Friday 23 August 2002 04:22, Gregg wrote: > >> I run a server, it hosts 127 websites. > > Hope with that domain name that doesn't mean what I think it means... > > >> Has many users for various other >> things. It is currently on a celeron 600 overclocked to 675, with 256 >> megs of ram. The motherboard supports celeron and pII. It is >> beginning to choke. It is time to upgrade the motherboard, cpu and >> ram. Since this is an old setup (celeron and old mobo) what do I need >> to do when replacing them. Everything is obviously compiled for it. >> I have not changed any of my flags in the configuration files. So it >> is all just i686 in the c*flags. I want to go up to an athlon 2200. >> So, what do I need to consider before switching them out, what do I >> need to do afterword . This is a 1.3b_test system with all the latest >> updates (except gcc 3.2, I am still on 3.1.1) > > I agree with some of the other posters. You're being REAL brave running > that on a 1.3 beta. On a server, I would have definitely gone with 1.2 > (and been a bit sweaty about the palms doing that -- Gentoo's strength > is not stability right now.) I hope most of those 127 sites belong to > friends of yours that are forgiving about outages. > > The one recommendation I would make would be to compile your kernel for > all the new stuff as well as the old (I'd do it with modules), and if > in doubt, make it a module. (You'd have to have support for modules > compiled in, of course.) > > I just had to replace a motherboard myself recently, and there were all > kinds of little oddities I had to clean up. Having support for > everything in the kernel will minimize your downtime getting the new > box up. (I assume you want it up as soon as practical.) > > One other little tidbit from recent personal experience. Be sure to > check things out with hdparm once you get the new motherboard in. My > new one had one of my hard drives running at about 4 MB/s. After I > turned on the usual stuff, it ran about 40.5 MB/s. Your mileage will > almost certainly vary, but it's always worth checking.