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Well, the new server is almost finished (only a few minor things left to do).

Even though it is the exact same hardware as the old one (by that I mean it IS the old one, just with a new operating system) it is soooo much faster. I put this down to Gentoo (and using reiserfs rather then ext3). One major point to note is memory usage, or lack there of. Perviously, the RedHat server (which did run X granted) had about 190-200mb resident. The Gentoo box has it currently at 41mb. WOW.

Anyway, I’m tired, and I want to finish it tomorrow (a whole day ahead of my estimate, YEY, a deadline I actually come UNDER!!).


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17 Responses to “Gentoo Server”

  1. Cameron Says:
    March 30th, 2004 at 6:16 am

    Ah, the beauty of gentoo :)
    TeiserFS and ext3 aren’t that dramatically different, but Gentoo alone can increase speed by about 20%. For a server, that’s a metric fuckload. And of course the true beauty of gentoo is it’s awesome bloat control.

    true, all I have done is restate your entry without adding anything new, but I just wanted to bask in the glory of Gentoo for a moment.

  2. Cameron Says:
    March 30th, 2004 at 9:56 am

    OFF-TOPIC:

    In your confirmation, you talked about a standard that could be used to nodel the generic behaviour of a system - ala a visual programming paradigm kinda thingie (mmm . .technicalicious). WTF was it again?

  3. michael Says:
    March 30th, 2004 at 11:15 am

    Was it the Model Driven Architecture (MDA)?

  4. Cameron Says:
    March 30th, 2004 at 12:08 pm

    No, that one I got. Dave Andrews asked a question about using an OMG standard for modelling the behaviour which is still in draft.

  5. tim Says:
    March 30th, 2004 at 12:45 pm

    ??

  6. Cameron Says:
    March 30th, 2004 at 1:32 pm

    Bugger. That is not the response I wanted :) But what is wrong with the posting script?

  7. Cameron Says:
    March 30th, 2004 at 1:37 pm

    I think Dave Andrews was asking about modelling interactions and behaviours of objects in the simulation, and you briefly mentioned an OMG standard for doing this ??? Or was I delirious?

  8. tim Says:
    March 30th, 2004 at 5:51 pm

    I don’t know what’s wrong with the script. It’s stupid perl just being stupid.

  9. tim Says:
    March 30th, 2004 at 5:52 pm

    Hey, it didn’t die that time :) I’m still not getting emailed when comments appear though, which is VERY annoying

  10. tim Says:
    March 30th, 2004 at 6:04 pm

    back to being silly again

  11. Cameron Says:
    March 30th, 2004 at 6:56 pm

    “Fix it. Fix it fix it fix it fix it fix it.”
    - Fry

  12. tim Says:
    March 30th, 2004 at 8:14 pm

    :( I can’t, the error is really weird. When the file goes to close the “MAIL” file it has open (hooked onto a stream I guess) it reckons that the “close” call isn’t a sub routinue of a reference to one. THE F***IN close function. That’s low level File I/O stuff, how can the error be thrown there!

  13. Cameron Says:
    March 30th, 2004 at 9:24 pm

    Very, very strange. A better quest is why did it start happening??? I am guessing something msut have changed?

  14. tim Says:
    March 30th, 2004 at 11:44 pm

    It only happens on the new server! It must be something regarding the packages I have with Gentoo :(

  15. tim Says:
    March 31st, 2004 at 11:33 pm

    I’m trying to fix it now :)

  16. tim Says:
    March 31st, 2004 at 11:33 pm

    So I’m currently just posting comments to test it :)

  17. tim Says:
    March 31st, 2004 at 11:34 pm

    So I’m currently just posting comments to test it :)