Dave Page wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com> wrote:
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>>> from remus which is in austria shows no problem for the last 24h) we had
>>> two runaway cvsps processes in the git jail(which is on the same
>>> physical host as the wiki) that more or less hogged all the CPU on the box.
>> Oh for Pete's sake, can we please get away from jails and just use
>> dedicated servers? We've had enough people volunteer hardware and
>> time to make this happen.
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> No we haven't - not even remotely. At a rough count we'd need at least
> another 17 servers (based on the current number of VMs), and we'd lose
> the ability to move services between hardware quickly and easily. Oh,
> and we'd have the management headache of dealing with a bunch more
> hosting providers, as I doubt the current ones will give us that many
> boxes.
*cough*
Yes I think they would.
That being said :) I think its a mistake. It would be a complete waste
of resources to go to dedicated machines. Some of the machines we have
we hardly use at this point.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake