Re: [squeak-dev] a tiny bit of lag on squeak.org for good reason

>
> You may notice squeak.org a bit sluggish over the next few hours.
>
> In the past board meeting, we all echoed and reechoed our concern that
> squeak.org wasn't being backed up anywhere off box.  At all. For a very
> long time.  Yes, isn't that crazy?  All of squeak.org on a single
> spindle.
>
> Finally, after much coaxing and promising of purchases of
> fine single-malt scotch (just kidding about that last part, but I
> wouldn't refuse it if offered), I volunteered some spare disk space and
> bandwidth on the company server (red.stonehenge.com) to begin a series
> of steps to modernize our platform.
>
> Step 1 is happening now.  I'm cloning the image and changes and
> datafiles that drive squeak.org.  I'll then set up a cron job to make
> sure that is refreshed daily, perhaps even hourly.
>
> Step 2 will happen WITH THE HELP OF SOMEONE FROM THE VM TEAM (nudge
> nudge).  I need to build a VM that runs on FreeBSD.  If I can do that, I
> can fire up a "hot spare" site that works like squeak.org although
> you'll have to get to it with a weird URL.  My last attempt to do that
> failed, and I'm not sure why, except I blamed it on a linux-ism.  So if
> someone FROM THE VM TEAM will please give me precise build instructions
> for FreeBSD, I'll be happy to give it a try again.
>

> Step 3 is very likely (but still in the proposal phase) that the Board
> will approve me to rent a new VPS (very likely at arpnetworks.com/vps)
> to build a new home for squeak.org that is on RAID disk and redundant
> power supply and IPV6 ready and running ZFS for point-in-time snapshots
> (needed with Squeak for backups).  At that point, we'll decommission the
> old squeak.org, and I'll be the defacto head of the Box Team, if not its
> only member (since Ken wants to move on, and I don't blame him).
>
> So, if squeak.org is a big sluggish while I grab the first 11.2GB
> snapshot, please be patient.
>
> --
> Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095
> <[hidden email]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/>
> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc.
> See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion
>
>

>
> On 18 March 2011 01:52, Randal L. Schwartz <[hidden email]> wrote:
> >
> > You may notice squeak.org a bit sluggish over the next few hours.
> >
> > In the past board meeting, we all echoed and reechoed our concern that
> > squeak.org wasn't being backed up anywhere off box. ??At all. For a very
> > long time. ??Yes, isn't that crazy? ??All of squeak.org on a single
> > spindle.
> >
> > Finally, after much coaxing and promising of purchases of
> > fine single-malt scotch (just kidding about that last part, but I
> > wouldn't refuse it if offered), I volunteered some spare disk space and
> > bandwidth on the company server (red.stonehenge.com) to begin a series
> > of steps to modernize our platform.
> >
> > Step 1 is happening now. ??I'm cloning the image and changes and
> > datafiles that drive squeak.org. ??I'll then set up a cron job to make
> > sure that is refreshed daily, perhaps even hourly.
> >
> > Step 2 will happen WITH THE HELP OF SOMEONE FROM THE VM TEAM (nudge
> > nudge). ??I need to build a VM that runs on FreeBSD. ??If I can do that, I
> > can fire up a "hot spare" site that works like squeak.org although
> > you'll have to get to it with a weird URL. ??My last attempt to do that
> > failed, and I'm not sure why, except I blamed it on a linux-ism. ??So if
> > someone FROM THE VM TEAM will please give me precise build instructions
> > for FreeBSD, I'll be happy to give it a try again.
> >
>
> I'd be happy to help and make a build StackVM/Cog configs for FreeBSD.
> I love this platform , it was my first unix platform i working with.

>
> So, if you want to try it out, check the
> https://pharo-ic.lille.inria.fr/hudson/view/Cog/job/Stack%20VM%20Unix/
> there is:
> https://pharo-ic.lille.inria.fr/hudson/view/Cog/job/Stack%20VM%20Unix/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/StackInterpreterUnixConfig-sources.tar.gz
> which contains all sources ready to build.
> unpack them, then go to build dir
> fix paths in directories.cmake file
>
> and then run:
> cmake .
> make
>
> Option #2:
>
> gimme shell access to your box, so i can test the config.
>
> if we succeed with building stack vm, then we can proceed and try
> building JIT as well..
> But stack VM is simpler for getting started.
>
> > Step 3 is very likely (but still in the proposal phase) that the Board
> > will approve me to rent a new VPS (very likely at arpnetworks.com/vps)
> > to build a new home for squeak.org that is on RAID disk and redundant
> > power supply and IPV6 ready and running ZFS for point-in-time snapshots
> > (needed with Squeak for backups). ??At that point, we'll decommission the
> > old squeak.org, and I'll be the defacto head of the Box Team, if not its
> > only member (since Ken wants to move on, and I don't blame him).
> >
> > So, if squeak.org is a big sluggish while I grab the first 11.2GB
> > snapshot, please be patient.
> >
> > --
> > Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095
> > <[hidden email]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/>
> > Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc.
> > See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.