"I and the other Kernel.org admins would like to announce downtime for ALL kernel.org machines (this includes all of the mirror machines, the public machines and the backend master). The downtime is scheduled to start on or around April 2nd, 2008 on or around 0001 UTC," began a GPG signed message on the Linux kernel mailing list from John 'Warthog9' Hawley, one of the kernel.org admins. Referencing a recent Slashdot discussion that compared Linux and FreeBSD performance, he continued:
"After much deliberation, research and argument in #korg (along with screaming matches between HPA and I over dinner) we are upgrading the kernel.org machines from Fedora Core 5 to FreeBSD 7.0. This decision does not come lightly to the Kernel.org admins, and we would like to point out several key things that helped us form our decision:"
John concluded, "we feel that we can better serve our mirrors, our users and the community by making the switch, and we hope to have the transition done very shortly."
From: J.H. <warthog9@...>
Subject: Kernel.org Downtime Notice - Please read *very* important
Date: Mar 31, 9:01 pm 2008
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Hash: SHA1
Afternoon everyone,
I and the other Kernel.org admins would like to announce downtime for
ALL kernel.org machines (this includes all of the mirror machines, the
public machines and the backend master). The downtime is scheduled to
start on or around April 2nd, 2008 on or around 0001 UTC.
After much deliberation, research and argument in #korg (along with
screaming matches between HPA and I over dinner) we are upgrading the
kernel.org machines from Fedora Core 5 to FreeBSD 7.0. This decision
does not come lightly to the Kernel.org admins, and we would like to
point out several key things that helped us form our decision:
FreeBSD 7.0 Bests Linux in SMP Performance:
http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/06/1313218
http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/7.0%20Preview.pdf
FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows 2000
http://www.freebsd.org/maketing/os-comparison.html
We feel that we can better serve our mirrors, our users and the
community by making the switch, and we hope to have the transition done
very shortly.
- - John 'Warthog9' Hawley
Kernel.org Admin
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From: David Newall <davidn@...>
Subject: Re: Kernel.org Downtime Notice - Please read *very* important
Date: Mar 31, 9:48 pm 2008
J.H. wrote:
> we are upgrading the kernel.org machines from Fedora Core 5 to FreeBSD
> 7.0.
Highly commendable. You should take this opportunity to also upgrade
network facilities to meet the requirements as laid out in RFC1149 (CPIP).
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From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...>
Subject: Re: Kernel.org Downtime Notice - Please read *very* important
Date: Mar 31, 10:11 pm 2008
From: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:18:16 +1030
> J.H. wrote:
> > we are upgrading the kernel.org machines from Fedora Core 5 to FreeBSD
> > 7.0.
>
> Highly commendable. You should take this opportunity to also upgrade
> network facilities to meet the requirements as laid out in RFC1149 (CPIP).
What about RFC1606? Maybe kernel should include a net/ipv9 branch.
;-)
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From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@...>
Subject: Re: Kernel.org Downtime Notice - Please read *very* important
Date: Mar 31, 9:44 pm 2008
Getting a jump on the April Fools messages I assume.
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, J.H. wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Afternoon everyone,
>
> I and the other Kernel.org admins would like to announce downtime for
> ALL kernel.org machines (this includes all of the mirror machines, the
> public machines and the backend master). The downtime is scheduled to
> start on or around April 2nd, 2008 on or around 0001 UTC.
>
> After much deliberation, research and argument in #korg (along with
> screaming matches between HPA and I over dinner) we are upgrading the
> kernel.org machines from Fedora Core 5 to FreeBSD 7.0. This decision
> does not come lightly to the Kernel.org admins, and we would like to
> point out several key things that helped us form our decision:
>
> FreeBSD 7.0 Bests Linux in SMP Performance:
> http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/06/1313218
> http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/7.0%20Preview.pdf
>
> FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows 2000
> http://www.freebsd.org/maketing/os-comparison.html
>
> We feel that we can better serve our mirrors, our users and the
> community by making the switch, and we hope to have the transition done
> very shortly.
>
> - - John 'Warthog9' Hawley
> Kernel.org Admin
>
>
>
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>
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> xHRv2IOLKqMv3Ntmx5jentc=
> =pjFh
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
> --
>
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Jon Lewis | I route
Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are
Atlantic Net |
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April 1st comes every year
April 1st comes every year and ruins all news posts :(
Hmm
I think it's kinda fun, IMHO. I'm rather disappointed that Slashdot is actually keeping a straight face this year. The "ZOMG! Ponies!" year was pretty funny. :-)
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"April 1st comes every year
"April 1st comes every year and ruins all news posts :("
I know. Here I was hoping that Linus was going to go off on another one of his ill-conceived rants, but instead I find an ill-conceived attempt at funny.
April first makes me grumpy :-(
Howdy Eeyore!
You must be a blast at parties.
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Program Intellivision and play Space Patrol!
"You must be a blast at
"You must be a blast at parties."
I wouldn't know, I only get invited to parties on April 1st :-P
Oh, really?
Hmmm. ;-)
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Looking up
Looking up here:
http://cacti.kernel.org/graph_view.php?action=tree&tree_id=1&leaf_id=9
I'm wondering: aren't these values too high for serving up 300 Mbps of files -mostly from kernel I assume-?
It would be interesting to see what does the same load causes on a FreeBSD box.
what numbers?
Which numbers are we supposed to be looking at? From the amount of write bandwidth going out to the disks, it's obviously not *only* serving files.
What do you think FreeBSD will do differently?
OpenBSD.org runs on a
OpenBSD.org runs on a Solaris box.
It does.
Honestly it's not an April Fool.
Check the FAQs !!!
OK, suit yourselves.
Hosted
Their main site is hosted (for the sake of bandwidth). Their host runs Solaris. Thrilling ...
I'm not too sure what is the
I'm not too sure what is the bigger April Fools. That they're moving to FreeBSD, or that the current system runs Fedora 5.
Let the distro flame wars begin ...
;)
http://searchdns.netcraft.com
http://searchdns.netcraft.com/?host=kerneltrap.org&position=limited&look.....