Automating hosted projects?
by Paul W. Frields
Hi Infrastructure team,
Not sure if this inquiry belongs here or on websites, but I'll start
here. Personally my experience has been that the Fedora admins act on
requests for Fedora Hosted projects requests very quickly. Some
potential contributors may want or need more instantaneous results,
and I would hate to see folks going to somewhere like Google Code if
we can keep their projects more open and transparent (and portable) to
the community.
Does the team have any sense as to whether we could further
automate the Fedora Hosted project creation process?
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15 years, 1 month
What is doing this?
by Mike McGrath
We've got a cron job that creates the fedorahosted webpage. It produces
(on occasion) this output:
========== START ==============
...... done.
...... done.
========== END OUTPUT =========
I've been poking at it for a bit and I just don't know what is causing
that, so to the list I came. Anyone have any bright ideas? I've attached
the script. My first inclination is that it's the make. But what in it
is causing this to happen sometimes but not every time?
-Mike
15 years, 1 month
Change request
by Mike McGrath
I'd like to
diff --git a/manifests/servergroups/phx.pp
b/manifests/servergroups/phx.pp
index 312b378..038caea 100644
--- a/manifests/servergroups/phx.pp
+++ b/manifests/servergroups/phx.pp
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ class phx {
}
host { 'admin.fedoraproject.org':
ip => '10.8.32.121',
+ alias => ['mirrors.fedoraproject.org',]
}
host { 'cvs.fedoraproject.org':
ip => '10.8.34.151',
Can I get 2 +1's?
-Mike
15 years, 1 month
DRBD
by Mike McGrath
I have a small research project if someone is interested in taking it up.
I want to know of Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE and the other major distributions,
How many of them include DRBD by default or via some official channel.
Also, of people on this list, how many of you use DRBD, in what capacity
and what do you think of it?
-Mike
15 years, 1 month
Change Request: python-bugzilla and packagedb on app servers
by Toshio Kuratomi
The update of the packagedb yesterday has a problem. The bugzilla
checking code doesn't work when started as the apache user because
python-bugzilla issues a traceback when it's unable to write to a
cookiefile in the user's home directory. This is preventing anyone from
taking ownership of a package including new branch requests.
I've got an updated python-bugzilla and packagedb that address this.
I'd like to install them on the app servers. Can I get some +1's to do
this tomorrow?
-Toshio
15 years, 1 month
Alpha Release Readiness
by John Poelstra
With the Alpha Release for Fedora 11 scheduled for Tuesday, February 3,
2009, this means it is time to meet again with representatives from each
of the teams to have our release readiness meeting. We usually have
this meeting at 18:00 UTC (13:00 EST) the Wednesday before, which means
next Wednesday, January 28, 2009, is the day.
On Monday, January 26, 2009, I will be sending out the dial-in
information and a meeting reminder to all the attendees.
In the meantime I need to know who will be representing your group at
these meetings for the Fedora 11 meetings. Usually this is the
designated team leader, but I wanted to ask to make sure you coordinate
within your team to make sure someone comes. When responding to this
list, please CC me so that I am sure to see the reply.
This message is going out to the respective mailings lists for these groups:
Ambassadors
Artwork/Design
Documentation
FESCo
Infrastructure
Marketing
Quality
Release Engineering
Translation
Websites
Thanks,
John
15 years, 1 month
Change freeze
by Mike McGrath
We are FROZEN!
Sorry for the short notice, the alpha always sneaks up on us. But we are
now FROZEN!
Whats this mean? Well,
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/SOP/Release#Change_Freeze
BAM! It means that. This is a pre-freeze so many things aren't frozen
(see that link to find what does and does not apply to you). We will
unfreeze 2009-02-04. If you've got something to do, make sure it gets
+1'ed.
Also, we'll be doing a fairly major upgrade after the Alpha ships of
moving from RHEL 5.2 to RHEL5.3 I haven't done any work on this yet but
will over the coming months to see if we will run in to any issues.
-Mike
15 years, 1 month
Disk IO issues
by Mike McGrath
Lets pool some knowledge together because at this point, I'm missing
something.
I've been doing all measurements with sar as bonnie, etc, causes builds to
timeout.
Problem: We're seeing slower then normal disk IO. At least I think we
are. This is a PERC5/E and MD1000 array.
When I try to do a normal copy "cp -adv /mnt/koji/packages /tmp/" I get
around 4-6MBytes/s
When I do a cp of a large file "cp /mnt/koji/out /tmp/" I get
30-40MBytes/s.
Then I "dd if=/dev/sde of=/dev/null" I get around 60-70 MBytes/s read.
If I "cat /dev/sde > /dev/null" I get between 225-300MBytes/s read.
The above tests are pretty consistent. /dev/sde is a raid5 array,
hardware raid.
So my question here is, wtf? I've been working to do a backup which I
would think would either cause network utilization to max out, or disk io
to max out. I'm not seeing either. Sar says the disks are 100% utilized
but I can cause major increases in actual disk reads and writes by just
running additional commands. Also, if the disks were 100% utilized I'd
expect we would see lots more iowait. We're not though, iowait on the box
is only %0.06 today.
So, long story short, we're seeing much better performance when just
reading or writing lots of data (though dd is many times slower then cat).
But with our real-world traffic, we're just seeing crappy crappy IO.
Thoughts, theories or opinions? Some of the sysadmin noc guys have access
to run diagnostic commands, if you want more info about a setting, let me
know.
I should also mention there's lots going on with this box, for example its
hardware raid, lvm and I've got xen running on it (though the tests above
were not in a xen guest).
-Mike
15 years, 1 month