We always thought our mirror server is connected with 2 GBit/s (two times an e1000 card using bonding mode=6), but the current Ubuntu release proved that somewhere along the way to the Internet there must still be something that limits us to 1 GBit/s. The following diagram shows this pretty clearly: Now we only need […]

Downtime for a few hours to install a fast (15K) 300GB SAS drive. This disk is used to act as a disk cache for apache. The goal is to reduce the number of simultaneous accesses on our main RAID. We also changed the bonding mode to: mode=6 (balance-alb)

Stopped the fedora and fedora.extras mirror scripts. These scripts were pointing to rsync modules which were removed on the master server because they were only necessary up to Fedora 6 which is already EOL since a few months.