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Subject:    Re: [Wikitech-l] Servers of wikimedia -> Jimbo
From:       Jimmy Wales <jwales () bomis ! com>
Date:       2004-04-28 18:50:26
Message-ID: 20040428185026.GD678 () joey ! bomis ! com
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Yes, I agree with all of this, and new servers have already been
ordered.  :-)


Camille Constans wrote:

> Hello
> 
> It's time to realize that we haven't enough servers in our cluster. One goes down, \
> and we have problems.... And wikpedia is slow ! 
> It would be really a good idea to get 2-3 more servers to be used as apache or \
> squid.  
> Another thing, zwinger our nfs server needs fast access in reading, cause each time \
> a user requests a page, it hits at least one file on zwinger... A nfs server with a \
> raid1 ide drive, would be fine I think and it would improve reliability(big disks \
> of course, we begin to be short of space on zwinger too. 4G left with only 2 \
> backups). The actual squid server could be used as an apache server then.
> 
> And of course DB SERVER !!!! 
> We have compressed old table on Suda to keep saving some space, but we're really \
> short in space. And we can't migrate other wikipedias as de, nl, ... to UTF-8 \
> before getting more space and speed. There is only 3G left on Suda, and we need \
> space for logs. So we copy often logs to another server... If space is full, we'll \
> have to use Curly as DB server, with only one ide drive, back in time in december \
> when wikipedia was so slow (yeah, I know it's slow now, but it was worse in \
> december) 
> Wikimedia must get new servers to improve speed. At least for those who has given \
> money ! 
> Shaihulud
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