The following hosts will be migrated to the Linux 2.6 host kernel. Linux 2.6 has shown some performance gains, mostly in disk I/O performance with the Completely Fair Queuing (CFQ) disk scheduler.

Reboot Schedule

Thu, March 18, 2004 22:00 EST (-5 GMT):
host4, host7, host8

All Linodes will be shutdown properly, the host will be rebooted, and then your Linode will be rebooted using the last used config profile.

Actual down-time should be between 15-45 minutes. Please allow a one to two hour window for the reboot to occur.

If this affects you, you'll be getting an email from me shortly. The reboot schedule for the other hosts will be announced next week.

Status and details will be posted on this thread.

Thanks,
-Chris

Yay!

/me eagerly awaits reboot...

/me also does "mkdir /sys" and awaits release of 2.6 UML kernel...

aye, I moved to host18 with 2.6 last weekend, has been nice and smooth.

I've been using kernel 2.6 at home and office. The speed difference is incredible over 2.4. Looking forward to my host being moved over.

For up-to-the-minute updates while the reboots are taking place you can hang out in the IRC channel:

http://www.linode.com/cgi-bin/irc/irc.cgi

or

join #linode on orion.oftc.net

-Chris

[root@host7 vbin]# uptime
22:14:10 up 79 days, 3:39, 6 users, load average: 0.71, 3.32, 3.24

[root@host7 root]# uname -a
Linux host7.linode.com 2.6.4-1 #5 SMP Thu Mar 18 14:46:07 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Host7 Reboot complete.

[root@host8 root]# uptime
22:28:28 up 85 days, 20:26, 4 users, load average: 4.34, 4.27, 4.36

[root@host8 root]# uname -a
Linux host8.linode.com 2.6.4-1 #5 SMP Thu Mar 18 14:46:07 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Host8 reboot complete.

[root@host4 root]# uptime
22:56:45 up 86 days, 5:25, 6 users, load average: 0.25, 0.36, 0.36

[root@host4 root]# uname -a
Linux host4.linode.com 2.6.4-1 #5 SMP Thu Mar 18 14:46:07 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Host4 reboot complete.