[db5-users] OUTAGE: RAM Upgrade 20080622

[Lance Albertson]

Lance Albertson wrote:
> All-
> 
> Outage: June 22, 2008 @ 4:00PM PDT (2300 UTC)
> Reason: RAM Upgrade
> 
> I need to perform a RAM upgrade to db5.osuosl.org to bring it from 4G of 
> RAM to 12G. We recently migrated the forums site for Mozillazine over to 
> it and encountered some performance issues. Please thank Jason Kersey 
> (kerz) of Mozillazine as he purchased the RAM for this upgrade. I'm 
> planning on doing the outage on June 22, 2008 at 4:00 PDT (2300 UTC). If 
> I have time, I'll try and setup a failover between another DB server so 
> that the outage is seamless, but I've ran out of time to get that 
> completely setup today. This upgrade needs to happen this weekend 
> otherwise I would wait to get everything properly setup.
> 
> If I don't have fail-over setup, I expect the outage window to be around 
> 10-15 minutes. You can find me on IRC as Ramereth in #osuosl if you 
> would like to be around during the outage. Please email me if you have 
> any questions.
> 
> I apologize for the short notice, but this upgrade is very important to 
> get done ASAP!

Just a reminder that this will be happening in about 1.5 hours. 
Unfortunately I didn't get the seamless upgrade path done so the machine 
will be unavailable during the RAM upgrade. Hopefully the outage will be 
no longer than 10-15 minutes.

Thank you!

-- 
Lance Albertson                                    lance <at> osuosl.org
Systems Administrator / Architect                        Open Source Lab
Network Services                                 Oregon State University
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