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sunny256
 Post subject: There goes my uptime...
PostPosted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 5:18 pm 
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...but after the reboot I get 8 gigs more disk space, thanks to the Christmas present from Linode.

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2013-03-13 22:06:24 sunny@linode:~
$ uprecords 
     #               Uptime | System                                     Boot up
----------------------------+---------------------------------------------------
->   1   525 days, 23:42:50 | Linux 2.6.39.1-linode34   Tue Oct  4 23:23:45 2011
     2   337 days, 04:21:55 | Linux 2.6.32.16-linode28  Mon Nov  1 17:56:52 2010
----------------------------+---------------------------------------------------
NewRec   188 days, 19:20:54 | since                     Thu Sep  6 03:45:40 2012
    up   863 days, 04:04:45 | since                     Mon Nov  1 17:56:52 2010
  down     0 days, 00:04:58 | since                     Mon Nov  1 17:56:52 2010
   %up              100.000 | since                     Mon Nov  1 17:56:52 2010
2013-03-13 22:06:35 sunny@linode:~
$


Oh, and don't get fooled by that reboot in October 2011. That was the previous time I got more hard disk space. So it has actually been up 863 days without any problems.

Thanks for a great and amazingly stable service, Linode. :D

P.S. Anyone else with nice uptimes?
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 12:42 pm 
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nahh i reboot often to get things like kernel updates and flush things out.
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I'll wait for the final two "nextgen" phases before rebooting :P
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sunny256 wrote:
P.S. Anyone else with nice uptimes?

Naw, I drive a R8 so I don't need to do the geek uptime dick waving thang.

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//ok, my WIFE drives the R8 (I usually jog or bike to work)//

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Guspaz wrote:
I'll wait for the final two "nextgen" phases before rebooting :P


Code:
while true
do
  sleep 3600
  wget http://blog.linode.com/ -o /dev/null -O new
  if [[ -f old ]]
  then
    cmp -s old new || ( mv -f new old ; shutdown -r now )
  else
    mv new old
  fi
done
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Whatever will I do with 8 cores and all that bandwidth?

I can't wait to see what phase 3 is.
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I can't wait to see what phase 3 is.


The hamsters are given new wheels!

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Hrrm, not thrilled with phase 2. CPU performance was the one thing that absolutely nobody but zunzun complained about. I was expecting something like disk or RAM to get a big bump, particularly since disk space seems to be the number one customer complaint.

Most linode customers will, I think, get no benefit from the CPU upgrades, but there's a bunch of stuff we'd like to do that's not possible with our linode today due to disk space.
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Network and CPU upgrades are great, but RAM is the only thing that is making me consider switching. If it doesn't happen in round 3, I'll give it maybe 6 months, then I may have to split ...

Ram Upgrades | Date | Elapsed Time
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??% -> ??? | ???? ???? | 2 years 10 months and counting ...
42% -> 512mb | June 2010 | 2 years 6 months
20% -> 360mb | Dec 2007 | 3 months
17% -> 300mb | Sept 2007 | 6 months
100%-> 256mb | Mar 2007 | 2 months
28% -> 128bm | Jan 2007 | 7 months
25% -> 100mb | June 2006 | 9 months
25% -> 80mb | Sept 2005 |
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deadwalrus wrote:
Network and CPU upgrades are great, but RAM is the only thing that is making me consider switching. If it doesn't happen in round 3, I'll give it maybe 6 months, then I may have to split ...


I agree about RAM, it's the only thing I'm really pressed for right now. Hopefully this will get a bump with the new hardware.

More disk would be great but I find that either I need a machine with a few GB or with a few TB and rarely anything in between.


Which reminds me that I meant to play with s3fs on Linode.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 11:33 am 
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For me, the CPU bump was awesome - but that's mainly because the machine that benefited most from it (a Linode 1536) hosts a small but very high traffic set of php scripts. So for me the extra four cores have made a noticeable impact on that and my two other "bigger" Linodes. That one had a ~800 day uptime, mainly because of the traffic and not needing any of the previous free upgrades. This gave me a chance to not only get more CPU but to finally update the kernel and update to the latest Ubuntu LTS.

Memory would be nice, sure, especially on my shell Linode (512) that's basically running maxed all the time. I suppose I could just man up and pay for a little more, but I've already had two free bumps so why not wait? :)
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The extra cores don't do a lot for me but I would like the faster ones as they'll help out with response time. Anyone have any idea what the downtime will be like to migrate from the old hardware to the new?

I'm crossing my fingers for more RAM or the ability to add extra disk space at a reasonable price for the 3rd phase. E5 servers have a much higher RAM density than the older L5xx boxes so it should be possible without increasing costs on new hardware.

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jasonlitka wrote:
The extra cores don't do a lot for me but I would like the faster ones as they'll help out with response time. Anyone have any idea what the downtime will be like to migrate from the old hardware to the new?

A minute or two per GB of disk image.

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jasonlitka wrote:
The extra cores don't do a lot for me but I would like the faster ones as they'll help out with response time. Anyone have any idea what the downtime will be like to migrate from the old hardware to the new?

A minute or two per GB of disk image.


Good to know. Thanks.

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Guspaz wrote:
Most linode customers will, I think, get no benefit from the CPU upgrades...


True, but in my specific case testing has shown that my web site is easily twice as fast now. I moved to SMP multicore parallel processing years ago, and this is like a dream come true for me. The upcoming faster hardware will probably give me gooey pants as well - when that happens, I predict that my wife will have to wash the bedsheets far more often than she does now.

See http://zunzun.com for the site.

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