Scheduled Downtime - 15th June

Upto an hour or so downtime tomorrow (Atleast I'm hoping it'll be tomorrow), adding SSD drive to server as I've noticed the current ramdisk setup is causing some annoying lag spikes through it's HDD saving script.

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I hope you get rid of that fucking lag...

Awww yeay.....If its for the Good of the server, let it be.

Hello,

we have installed the ssd into your server and boot the machine back into the
regular system.

Best Regards

Patrick Lenzner

I'm not sure what they were doing there at midnight, but I don't care. ;p

Will get it set up tomorrow morning when there's not many on.

Code:

root@Debian-60-squeeze-64-minimal /ssd # dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 4.98966 s, 215 MB/s
root@Debian-60-squeeze-64-minimal /ssd # cd
root@Debian-60-squeeze-64-minimal ~ # dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 20.0094 s, 53.7 MB/s


Orcworm wrote:Upto an hour or so downtime tomorrow (Atleast I'm hoping it'll be tomorrow), adding SSD drive to server as I've noticed the current ramdisk setup is causing some annoying lag spikes through it's HDD saving script.

wish i could understand what that means, but im guessing its something really good you pulled together with all the extra donations

Ciphon wrote:

Orcworm wrote:Upto an hour or so downtime tomorrow (Atleast I'm hoping it'll be tomorrow), adding SSD drive to server as I've noticed the current ramdisk setup is causing some annoying lag spikes through it's HDD saving script.

wish i could understand what that means, but im guessing its something really good you pulled together with all the extra donations

SSD = Solid State Drive. Like Random Access Memory, but more stable and permanent.

Ramdisk = Using RAM to function as a storage space. Data is still lost at shutdown, however.

HDD Saving Script = Creating a backup of what's on the RAMdisk, to the Hard Drives. Usually causes massive amounts of lag, and may be intensive.

i sorta get it now... the ssd will decrease lag by making easier backups for the hdd thing?

Ciphon wrote:i sorta get it now... the ssd will decrease lag by making easier backups for the hdd thing?

The Solid State drive is just a much, MUCH faster way in reading/writing information. My guess is that Orc will store the server information on the RAMDisk, and script saves to the SSD. He'll log on every now and then to move data from the SSD to the Hard Drives, as they will be used as general storage.

Should be good to go now.