IRC log for #gllug on 20140417

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09:45.01ChoHagyum update swallowed an entire CPU before I killed it. It never got as far as working out that it didn't have a network.
10:00.48ChoHagHmm. The latest Oracle Linux comes with MySQL 5.1.
11:31.37ChoHagIt would have helped if they'd asked me what equipment to buy rather than buying equipment they don't understand on the recommendation of a salesdroid.
11:32.14ChoHagFor one thing, there's be more SSD and less local storage.
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12:21.26dick_turpinmorsing: Have you ever used your wife's mirror to look at your sphincter?
13:04.19ChoHagSeems Dell's raid controller only lets you have raid-1 in pairs.
13:04.45ChoHagBecause who'd want to increase redundancy and read speed at the expense of sweet fuck all?
13:07.16ArmandNobody.. right?
13:08.03ChoHagApparently.
13:08.16ChoHagAnd never mind reducing the risk of failure during reconstruction.
13:08.35ChoHagReducing the impact from compounded failuer during reconstruction, sorry.
13:11.34ChoHagIf I decide on raid-10, each raid-1 span can include more than a simple pair.
13:11.48ChoHagBut raid-1 on its own is a 2-way mirror only.
13:11.58wethrinUse zfs :)
13:12.53ChoHagI WANT TO!
13:13.34wethrinDO EEET
13:14.48ChoHagNobody here will understand it.
13:15.40wethrinSo they won't know that you're doing it properly :)
13:16.30ChoHagThey have so little clue, this is what they've dumped on me: 3x R720s, dual CPUs totalling 16 2.6GHz cores, 96GB RAM, 16x 146GB 15K SAS drives. To run a ~10GB, largely write-only, mysql database.
13:17.03ChoHagUnfortunately, what I need to produce is not a database, but the instructions for deploying it.
13:17.23wethrinThat's quite a nice configuration :)
13:17.25wethrinOverkill, mind
13:17.26ChoHagOtherwise they'd get something which doesn't suck.
13:17.36ChoHagHah. Just a bit.
13:17.59wethrinSet up ESXi on it. And then steal the extra resources for your own little virtual machine empire
13:18.43ArmandMMMmmmmmm.... memcached.
13:18.43ArmandHold up..
13:18.43ArmandWRITE only ?
13:18.43Armandfails to comprehend..
13:21.34ChoHaglargely write only
13:22.19ChoHagIt's basically a log of results from tests run on the factory floor.
13:35.21ChoHagAny idea if I can export the dell h710 configuration so they don't have to use the raid configuration tool in the bios?
13:47.10ArmandI get you.
13:47.57ArmandAs I work with webhosts, everything is kinda dynamic.. so databases will be read//write. Anything else just doesn't seem logical. :P
13:48.50ChoHagReading is done mostly from one of the slaves for reports and suchlike.
13:49.06ChoHagHow bloody long can this POS server scan for devices?
13:49.21ChoHagAll I did was change the raid settings.
14:16.50AndyMillarnew hardware is a pain like that
14:20.41ChoHagNo it wasn't because of that.
14:21.11ChoHagThe scan had finished, but then there was nothing to boot because everything was blank.
14:21.36ChoHagSo Dell in their wisdom decided the thing to do was just sit there with a message on the screen telling me the action it's performing could take a long time.
14:22.52ChoHagAlso, idrac is shit.
14:23.12ChoHagAnd I cannot escape the conclusion that much of what's shit is intentional.
14:25.33ChoHagI liked LOM.
14:26.00ChoHagReal lom. None of this lom-over-tcp bullshit for the windows twats who don't know what a computer actually is.
14:37.17wethrinThe Sun one over serial port?
14:57.51ChoHagYes.
14:58.25ChoHagIt didn't try to be clever.
14:58.28wethrinIt was nice
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16:43.34ChoHagAh what a species.
16:43.35ChoHagDude steals 89 cents worth of Coke, US government gives him a ticket for $525.
16:43.35ChoHagBankers bring down the entire economy and require $16 trillion in loans[1] to keep the sham going, nobody bats an eye.
16:43.48ChoHagHah!
16:43.49ChoHagYeah but... there wasn't a sign up that said "No Ruining The Economy"
19:02.36ChoHagThe nice thing about a tiny phase differential is that it will correct itself.
19:02.36ChoHagThe bad thing about a big phase differential is that it will also correct itself.
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