2005-07-15 00:00

A new kernel was installed and a very big RAID (4TB). The new RAID is not in use yet because were are still doing tests on how to use it. The RAID is attached via Fibre Channel and consists of 12 400GB SATA drives.

2005-04-21 00:00

After about 150 days without a reboot a hardware re-configuration made a reboot necessary. Two RAIDs were removed and one was added and now we have 100GB additional space which of course will also be used for the FTP mirror. The two RAIDs were over 7 years old and together they only provided around 230GB. The new RAID is also old hardware but probably only 4 years old and it provides 350GB. In addition to the new hardware there was also a new kernel installed before the reboot.

2004-12-02 00:00

The whole university was disconnected from the Internet due to construction work during which our uplink was cut. It took them some hours to fix it but now everyting is back to normal. Outage was from 7:30 to 12:25.

2004-11-24 00:00

Reboot to finish the upgrade to Fedora Core 3 and to install a new network card. After many years our network connection is again using copper. We are also using a different driver for our internal RAID controller. Instead of the dpt_i2o module we are now using the i2o_block module. Uptime was 85 days.

2004-10-30 00:00

Some process(es) consumed all the memory and the machine was not usable for about an hour. This was the time the OOM killer striked and started killing about half of the processes. After restarting all services everything was back to normal without rebooting.