The instabilities of the last weeks seem finally over. A new SCA backplane was installed, all RAIDs are working as expected and no more SCSI errors are reported. So we are prepared to create new uptime record for this server.

In the last weeks there were many unannounced reboots to update the bios of every component because one of our RAIDs is refusing to use all available disks and this is the only help the manufacturer is offering us.

A new mirror has been added: auroralinux.org

2.4.22 didn’t work very good and therefore we are using again 2.4.21-rc2-ac2 with 64GB support.

Downtime to upgrade the hardware. Two additional CPUs. 4GB of additional RAM and 150GB new harddisk space. A new kernel has also been installed (2.4.22).

The ftp and http processes were disabled for a short time to unplug the external RAIDs and connect them to a new UPS.

Reboot to install new kernel: 2.4.21-pre2-ac2

Big change: The IP address has been changed from 134.108.34.10 to 129.143.116.10. Right now it seems to work quite normal but we will see how this change will influence the current status. More information here when the transition is finished.

The SuSE mirror has been completley redesigned. It is now mirrored from a more official place and the directory structure makes therefore now more sense. Get SuSE here.

RedHat 9 has been released. Also available via apt.

A new mirror has been added. The eclipse project is now also available from here. Get eclipse.

This server has been updated to RedHat 9.

New record. Yesterday the total outgoing traffic was over 11TB. Never before has ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de delivered so much data.

Mandrake 9.1 has been released which resulted in much more bandwidth consumption. Instead of the usual 30-50MBit/s it is now always more than 200MBit/s and all 500 available ftp connections are in use.

Reboot was necessary to patch the kernel (ptrace exploit fix)

Just a status report, that the new kernel is operating without any apparent problems.

Right now we are running again without any bandwidth shaping which immediately resulted in a tripled bandwidth consumption. This server is the machine which produces the highest amount of traffic in the BelWü. Should this make us proud?

Short, unannounced, downtime to upgrade the kernel. Now a pure and selfmade 2.4.20 is powering this server.

Maintenance reboot to install two new SCSI controllers. This leads to that this server is now independent of any other server and no data is mounted via NFS but locally available. Two hours later after trying to unmount the last NFS-mounted file-system the system froze again completely. Another reboot and time to install a new […]

The new RedHat beta (phoebe) has been released. This is the third version of this RedHat beta release. The apt repository has also been updated.