Rantville

Da står siste webserver for tur, overgangen fra Apache2 til Lighttpd(lighty) er gjort, noe småjobb med enkelte av tjenestene vil skje ila de neste timene. Denne posten vil bli oppdatert når jobben er ferdig, frem til det skjer smør deg med litt tålmod.

Oppdatering;
Da er 90% på plass, mailman trenger noe småplukk, men ikke en vital tjeneste så det blir senere.
Rapporter evnt bugs.

The last web-server is now due for migrating to lighttpd, main setup is done, vhosts and any quirks on the systems run therein will be sorted during the next hour(s).
During this process certain pages/services will be unavailable, this to be expected, no need to report bugs before this post is updated that the move is “done”

Update;
Just a few tweaks left, non vital services. Report any oddities

Lets get a fact straight for those that dont know me, Im in no way shape or form a man that loves being out in the nature walking, this weekend was an exception.. I had a huge grin on my face the entire weekend, even with 7-8 hours out in the forrest with heavy snow I was a happy camper.
From the little under 5 hours of raw footage, I have edited down this 28min clip for you. It holds almost notn but rally action.
First time with a DV cam, had to use a mini-tripod to get above the crowd on many of the shots, why there is more shaky-cam than I had hoped for, but hey, its watchable. :X

Thanx to my lil bro for lending me the DV cam, Haanæs family for the hospitality & all the rally wackos I met & shared great laughs with. Lets hope we get another round in 2009 & that even more wannabe-rally-fans will attend the events.

There was no way I could host this clip in a reasonable quality on this link(350MB), so here’s another first for me, google video. If you for some odd reason would like a higher res rip or even a dvdr, mail me & we’ll see what we can sort out.

Enjoy!(?)

Tiden er kommet, snørally #2 i World Rally Championship er kun 1 dag og 16 timer fra å være igang.
Jeg stikker nedover på torsdag og får med meg åpningsermonien, deretter vil det gå slag i slag med de etappene det er mulig å få med seg.

Mini-DV er med, vil vise seg hvor bra slikt utstyr oppfører seg i kulda.

Krysser fingre for at alt faller pÃ¥ plass slik at vi fÃ¥r nye norske runder i wrc sirkuset fom 2009, til de av dere som ikke fikk ut fingern iÃ¥r……*kremt*

Takk til Haanæs familien på Hamar for lån av hybel!

Da har jeg tredd ut av restaurantrekkene, mulig det blir noe småjobbing i faget fremover, men søker meg mot nye utfordringer. Kommer tilbake til dette når jeg har noe mere håndfast å slå i bordet med.

På hjemmebane har jeg tatt opp igjen jobben jeg startet får jul, ny server og ombygging av de eksisterende. Etter mye lesing og noe testing av vmware, zen & vserver endte jeg opp med vmware. Har valgt å splitte opp de essensielle tjenestene til hver sin virtuelle server, samler naturlig nok enkelte tjenester på samme virtuelle maskin.
FreeBSD 6.2 kjører mail; exim,courier-imap,spamd,clamav & squirrel(sammen med lighttpd aka lighty).

Gentoo blir beholdt som grunnsystem på vmware boxen, likeså på fil-serveren.

Fortsatt litt debatt om hva web serveren skal ha i bunn, har 3 kandidater igjen, solaris, debian og heh gentoo. Om apache skal fortsette Ã¥ regjere eller om ‘lighty’ skal ta over er heller ikke avklart, begge har sine pros & cons.

Vurderte å scratche hele hovedserveren og ta ibruk solaris på burken, deres Zones er deilig, men vanens makt osv..

Bind får egen virtuell maskin, heller mot en debian avart der.

Resten av tjenestene blir småtteri å regne, dhcpd, ftpd, nfsd, smbd, cupsd, ircd ++ spiller det strengt tatt ingen rolle hva slags distro de havner på.

Har for morro skyld satt opp jabberd pÃ¥ en slackware distro(ogsÃ¥ virtuell) som kan nÃ¥es via jabber.hoiseth.no. Registrer deg gjerne, ligger der og lurer under navnet ‘hjelp’..

Ny serveren har til info følgende specs;
2.6.18-gentoo-r2 #1 SMP Tue Nov 21 02:05:29 CET 2006 x86_64 Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.20GHz GenuineIntel
2GB ram og en 250GB sata2 disk.

Velvel, lenge mellom postene her i den siste tiden, blir vel noe kjappere post rate fremover.

Kom gjerne med innspill!

First english post on rantville, we’ll see what happens in the future, the first impression on Icecream(what a name btw) deserved a broader crowd than the few native heads that skim through this blog. =P

That being said, Im talking about two alternatives for distributed compileing Ive been trying out, the good “ol” distcc and Icecream (based on distcc, a opensuse project).
Been running distcc in many a odd combination, and aslong as I kept gcc versions synced on nodes all was pleasantville.. Since I have a few gentoo boxes on the lan that wasnt a problem, but add various other *nix distros that I wanted to lend some cpu time from and it became a tad too much to maintain..
The end result was a crippled cluster with only 1/3 of the cpu power used.

This is for the record my home segment we are talking about, there are 3 boxes that are in production state, the rest are a few work stations, and a load of oldish boxes thats up on demand(UoD)..
Anyways, at the peak of my distcc era even my old c600 laptop had a nice time updating world (gentoo)… ahh happy days(?!)

–> fwd 450d12h32m..ish –>

In comes Icecream.. the name alone made me curious, that it was based on distcc & maintained by the opensuse made me decide to try it out. (Im not gonna go into the recent association between novell & ms, enough has been said, lets keep an eye on it & see how it evolves eh?)

The introduction alone made my heart skip a few beats, scheduler and gcc irrelevant.. Running identical Icecream versions seems to be a must tho, but thats the least of our worries.
I tossed it into 3 gentoo boxes and a kubuntu box, with these archs; amd duron & athlon, celeronM & Pent D940. Nice mix of archs, and the result? Very little work & all systems GO!
I could hardly believe my own eyes when I first loaded up icemon, it connected to the scheduler & voila in a few secs the nodes ticked up on the screen working “hard” as you can see from this picture;

This is just one of the views you can choose, for this small test cluster it was fitting tho.
As you can see on the top, the D940 with its dualcore doing a fine job, followed by celeronM(laptop), the amd duron & the athlon..
To stir it up further I ran various jobs on the nodes to see how well the scheduler responded.
The scheduler added jobs to the fastest available node in the cluster as it should, never did any of the nodes “suffer” in the compile rounds..

So.. to sum up the first days of Icecream splendour.. it looked good, tasted even better & boy do the other boxes wants some! =P

I’ll return with more info as the odd archs get tossed into the mix, for now, I give two thumbs up.