The Big One

regi

OK guys, one of the biggest upgrades we've done to date is coming very soon. Thursday, in fact.

Its one of those upgrades where we (the people doing it) actually do very little - we type a few lines, and then wait while the computers do the hard work for hours and hours.

This is the hoped for plan of action :-)

• Thursday, at about 11am, boards goes down briefly (We're doing a DB dump of the live database)
• About 20-30 minutes later, it'll come back, but as read only. (We lock all the tables, so the dumped version doesn't get out of sync)
• After about 2-3 hours, we'll have finished something internally, and you might get a brief outage. (We'll have copied the dump file onto the new DB server, and imported it, then we point all five webservers at it, away from Waldorf, which has been our DB server for a year or two.)
• After another 2-3 hours, it'll come back online, but this time for good - we're hoping that this will be before 5pm. (Then we do the VB software upgrade to the latest version)

We'll then be running a new DB server, which is the last remaining bottleneck... for now. If you heart the nerd, look here:

Mem: 16634460k total, 7728300k used, 8906160k free, 32916k buffers

ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 6:15 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x04] enabled)
Processor #4 6:15 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
Processor #1 6:15 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x04] lapic_id[0x05] enabled)
Processor #5 6:15 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x05] lapic_id[0x02] enabled)
Processor #2 6:15 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x06] lapic_id[0x06] enabled)
Processor #6 6:15 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x07] lapic_id[0x03] enabled)
Processor #3 6:15 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x08] lapic_id[0x07] enabled)
Processor #7 6:15 APIC version 20

The ultimate aim of this is that by thursday evening, we'll have a nice fast site with no immediate bottlenecks (for a few months _at least_, even with our growth in traffic) and far less downtime in general. Oh, and I'm going to turn search back on for everyone, except mike65 :-)

Wish us luck!

Huggles

Whoot, go on ya good things!

regi wrote:

OK guys, one of the biggest upgrades we've done to date is coming very soon. Thursday, in fact.

Its one of those upgrades where we (the people doing it) actually do very little - we type a few lines, and then wait while the computers do the hard work for hours and hours.

This is the hoped for plan of action :-)

• Thursday, at about 11am, boards goes down briefly (We're doing a DB dump of the live database)
• About 20-30 minutes later, it'll come back, but as read only. (We lock all the tables, so the dumped version doesn't get out of sync)
• After about 2-3 hours, we'll have finished something internally, and you might get a brief outage. (We'll have copied the dump file onto the new DB server, and imported it, then we point all five webservers at it, away from Waldorf, which has been our DB server for a year or two.)
• After another 2-3 hours, it'll come back online, but this time for good - we're hoping that this will be before 5pm. (Then we do the VB software upgrade to the latest version)

We'll then be running a new DB server, which is the last remaining bottleneck... for now. If you heart the nerd, look here:

Mem: 16634460k total, 7728300k used, 8906160k free, 32916k buffers

ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 6:15 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x04] enabled)
Processor #4 6:15 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
Processor #1 6:15 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x04] lapic_id[0x05] enabled)
Processor #5 6:15 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x05] lapic_id[0x02] enabled)
Processor #2 6:15 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x06] lapic_id[0x06] enabled)
Processor #6 6:15 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x07] lapic_id[0x03] enabled)
Processor #3 6:15 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x08] lapic_id[0x07] enabled)
Processor #7 6:15 APIC version 20

The ultimate aim of this is that by thursday evening, we'll have a nice fast site with no immediate bottlenecks (for a few months _at least_, even with our growth in traffic) and far less downtime in general. Oh, and I'm going to turn search back on for everyone, except mike65 :-)

Wish us luck!

AlmightyCushion

VB upgrade and a new DB server. Good work lads. This is gonna be sweet. Is this the dual quad core, 16GB DB server you were talking about not too long ago?

Edit: I just read the spoiler text. *drool*

Hagar

Fair play to you guys. Thanks for all the hard work.

pretty-in-pink

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh pretty

and also admin posting :eek:

call the vatican, or beter yet the non-believers here

cheers reg

biko

I boards

pid()

Way to ruin the thread layout biko!

Nice wan Regi. Fingers crossed the upgrade goes ahead without a hitch! So which version of vB are you upgrading to and which features will you be enabling?

RoundyMooney

This will be a very welcome development once established. As always, regi, we thank you.

pretty-in-pink wrote:

and also admin posting :eek:

call the vatican, or beter yet the non-believers here

Is that directed at me? If so would you care to elaborate on the other thread rather than here?

Thanks.

Time Magazine

G'wan the Regi.

Dord

Awesome, I can get some work done on Thursday

pretty-in-pink

RoundyMooney wrote:

This will be a very welcome development once established. As always, regi, we thank you.



Is that directed at me? If so would you care to elaborate on the other thread rather than here?

Thanks.

No, relax, I know you know that admin are busy etc, and do actually pop up here.

If it was at you, I would have said so.

Crikey I don't want to row with someone

*hugs*

I didn't even think were on different pages in the the other thread

Sorry if offence taken, not intended

Boston

When search comes back there will be another shift in the power of the internet. People will start to be able to reference others posts from yesteryear. Much awkwardness will result.

RuggieBear

Boston wrote:

When search comes back there will be another shift in the power of the internet. People will start to be able to reference others posts from yesteryear. Much awkwardness will result.

qft

RoundyMooney

pretty-in-pink wrote:

*hugs*

And thus it was that a positive vibe was restored to de thread.

/hugs back

/drops the hand

/gets a thick ear and a telling off

GhostInTheRuins

Woot!

RoundyMooney

Boston wrote:

When search comes back there will be another shift in the power of the internet. People will start to be able to reference others posts from yesteryear. Much awkwardness will result.

Ah.

You'll be outed as the curmudgeonly wise one of Feedback.

I'll be outed as a pedantic git.

Nothing new there

pretty-in-pink

RoundyMooney wrote:

And thus it was that a positive vibe was restored to de thread.

/hugs back

/drops the hand

/gets a thick ear and a telling off

*giggles*

ah, its been a few days since I was felt up. I feel so loved right now.

pedantcism is fun. Esp when people don't know what it means

David Michael

Boston wrote:

When search comes back there will be another shift in the power of the internet. People will start to be able to reference others posts from yesteryear. Much awkwardness will result.

The past is always present.

Ghost Train

all sounds a bit too positive... wonders about the chances of something going horribly wrong during the operation and boards dying a painful death

beware the ides of march etc

Cuddlesworth

Boston wrote:

When search comes back there will be another shift in the power of the internet. People will start to be able to reference others posts from yesteryear. Much awkwardness will result.

Ha, you can't get anything on me.

6th

PiP have you been to TCN yet?

Huzzah! Fair play Regi and all.

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

pretty-in-pink wrote:

pedantcism is fun. Esp when people don't know what it means

i know what pedanticism means, is that related?

/i'll take hugs as well - just *had* to do the school-teacher thing with the spelling

Stephen

Awesome. I picked a great day to be off work, regi will be slaving away over a hot server while I sleep - sounds like everything should be tip-top by the time I get out of bed

pretty-in-pink

yes 6th I have

and *hugs* to the teacher mr. roundtower

Crash

we should all sit around and have a mass sing of "danny boy" - it'd be fitting.

Terry

Well I for one am not happy about this.
I will be very hunover on thursday and now I'll have to look for something else to do that involves interacting with people I don't actually have to speak to.

Yay for the upgrade.
Boo for the chosen day.

WhiteWashMan

its not good enough

*moan* *moan*

AlmightyCushion

All together now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbuRA_D3KU

pretty-in-pink

I don't know that one, but I'll sing this

"Sonny don't go away,
I'm here all alone
Your daddys a sailor
never comes home

nights are soo long,
and silence goes on
I'm feeling so tired
and not all that strong"

Esel

Grovelling gratitude here. Esp for search - although I'll believe it when etc.

So, youz are doing all this for choice so that us plebs can surf smoother? What's the catch? As Shortround said: "You gotta pay!".

I can keep my subscription (read confirmation) money in my pension fund? Win-win!

[old codger] 16 Gigs of RAM? You think that's bad? We had punched cards and blinkenlights! [/old codger]

Vikings

It's been so long since.... well... i'm not sure if I remember how... how to search?!

Good luck with the upgrade!

Shiminay

You don't know Oh Danny Boy? For shame...

CuLT

Sucks to be mike65.

AlmightyCushion

If this is the search that is over on boards.tv then this should come in fairly handy.

Mr Magnolia

Great stuff all. Look forward to it. I'd imagine everyone will be hammering the search function for the first few days.

/points and laughs at mike65

Beruthiel

regi wrote:

Oh, and I'm going to turn search back on for everyone

OMG I love you Dan!

daiixi

Kharn wrote:

You don't know Oh Danny Boy? For shame...

I don't know Oh Danny Boy... *









*useful contribution to thread -1

seamus

/me pens in last five week's workload for tomorrow.

Nice job guys.

BuffyBot

Good timing, considering I won't be online much tomorrow

Kintarō Hattori

Woo Hooo - Quality stuff guys. Looking forward to having the auld search option back. Shame about Mike65 though!

faceman

this is all good news BUT what the hell are we goin to do during work hours on thursday??? dont say work! we need a fix!!!!


*hands shake nervously*

Faith

Excellent! I've only an hour of lectures tomorrow and an imminant essay deadline. I might actually do some work!

Tar.Aldarion

Time to write a search script.

RuggieBear

can we have rep back then?:p

zAbbo

Was search not working ?

Always worked for me.

any sexyness in the new vB? 3.6.X ?

Does that mean sigpo are out of business due to the inbuilt signature limits

/me hates signpo

r3nu4l

For those of you wondering what the new interface will be like please visit boards.org.uk, [URL=URL=http://www.boards.us]boards.us[/URL] or [URL=URL=http://www.boards.tv]boards.tv[/URL] for a sneak preview...they've had it and a fully functioning search system for months now

If you are stuck for somewhere to visit on Thursday during the down time feel free to pop across to boards.org.uk

Okay, that's enough pimpage for now

WizZard

Excellent. Well done and good luck with the upgrade.

6th

smashey

Damn. How to pass the day tomorrow?

r3nu4l wrote:

If you are stuck for somewhere to visit on Thursday during the down time feel free to pop across to boards.org.uk

Okay, that's enough pimpage for now

Away with you. [URL=URL=http://www.boards.tv]boards.tv[/URL] is the place to visit.

Sleepy

Woohoo! Good work lads!

Hope it goes well for ye!