Re: server crash (no autobuilder)

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Hi Jim,

On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 14:27 -0800, Jim Pick wrote:
> I wouldn't worry too much about the stability of the server just yet -
> it has been fairly solid in the past.  Most of the downtime in the past
> month was due to the hardware problems on my other server, and the fact
> I had to reconfigure everything.  It's not too hard for me to reboot it
> if things go bad.  Nobody using the machine seems to be particularly
> sensitive to a little downtime now and then.

OK, it doesn't really look like there was any trouble on the machine
before it went down. I restarted the autobuilder (and the irc cp-bot).
We will see how it holds up.

> Some weekend in the new year, I'd like to upgrade the base OS on it so I
> could get a newer version of Xen.  Perhaps the latest version of Fedora?
>  I suspect that it's been pretty well tested...

The Fedora virtualization story (xen, kvm, libvirt, virt-manager, qemu,
etc.) is pretty sweet. But compared to a somewhat conservative Debian
(stable) installation it can be a little intimidating with regard to
keeping up with updates. At home I have been running CentOS 5[.1], which
doesn't have kvm and some of the newer virt-manager stuff, but which has
been super stable. And they are as conservative about updates as Debian
stable. Combined with EPEL (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) it is
pretty nice for simple server installs that just have to do good Xen
based virtualization.

Cheers,

Mark



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