[tech] Re: [hwc] Upgrades (from other lists)

[Trent Lloyd]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 12:57:47PM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 01:14:35AM +0800, Davyd wrote:
> > There has been talk on the lists about upgrading mermaid.
> > 
> > Discussion with others has come up with some suggestions:
> >  - replace mermaid with an AMD (similar to pitch and velvet)
> >  - replace mermaid with something like an X-box
> >  - replace mussel with something REAL CHUNKY
> >    (such as a dual p4-xeon or dual-g5), leaving old-mussel to do
> >    mermaids tasks.
> 
> Ugh, dual-p4 is boring :) dual-g5 possibly but rather pricey. Dual 
> opteron is worth looking into, I don't think it'd be *that* expensive.
> 
> > It also occurs to me that mojarra no longer appears to have any tasks.
> > In my opinion it could probably be amalgamated with mermaid, when
> > mermaid is replaced.
> 
> mojarra is a WAIX only box. Once I get the WAIX stuff sorted (hopefully 
> this week) it'll be useful.

dont we have BGP routes on mussel ?

> 
> > Personally I'm all for the last option, mussel would get faster, as well
> > as allowing us to acquire another fast user shell machine. This means
> > that morwong logins could be turned off (making morwong not suck) and we
> > could get rid of mojarra.
> 
> Don't turn logins off on morwong, it's got really really nice
> programming manpages. :)
> 
> > Also, a dual-g5 (which I think is available in a rackable version) would
> > sort the men out from the boys, people would have to cross-compile for
> > x86 ;)
> 
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