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Gmane Hosting
Gmane is hosted in the colocation rack of the Norwegian Internet stock
broker Net Fonds, who is also
donating IP connectivity.
The Hardware
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sea runs the news server, and is a 4U dual Xeon 2.4GHz, 2GB
RAM machine with eight 160GB IDE disks run off a 3Ware Escalade IDE
RAID card. Six disks are in a RAID5 configuration (with XFS on top),
and is used as the news spool file system -- 800GB available for usage.
The two other disks are used in a RAID1 configuration as the system
disk (as well as for NOV storage). Use of this machine was donated to Gmane
by the NUUG Foundation.
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ciao is the main HTTP server, the CVS pserver and the RSS
generator. It's a 1U dual Opteron 2GHz machine,
with two SATA disks running RAID1. The OS is amd64 Debian. It was
paid for by web ads and donations.
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deer serves out most of the web content and runs weaverd. It's a 1U dual 2.4Ghz
Opteron with 8GB RAM, paid by me.
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lo is the primary MTA, and is a 1U dual quad-core 1.87GHz
Xeon "Clovertown" (i.e., Core 2) machine, paid for by sponsorship
money.
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dough is the secondary MTA, and is a 4U dual 2.2GHz Opteron, mostly
assembled from spare parts from other machines.
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ger is the the new news server, and is a 1U Core 2 Duo
machine with 8GiB RAM (for disk caching), and a FibreChannel connection
to a Sataboy RAID cabinet (with 2.2TB worth of disk in total), paid for by
sponsorship money.
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plane is the spool backup machine and search engine
re-indexing machine. It is a 2U dual AMD MP2000+, 2GB RAM machine
with a 200GB disk (with XFS on top). It was kindly donated by Net Fonds.
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rain is the new search engine machine, running Xapian. It's
a 2U Athlon 64 2GHz machine, 3GB RAM with 500GB disks for index
storage and a spool mirror. It was bought from funds generated by web
ads.
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hugh runs weaverd,
which is the daemon behind the web interfaces. The machine is
a 2U 2GHz Opteron with 4GB PC3200 RAM. It has 2x250GB SATA disks for
index storage and yet another spool mirror. It was paid for by
web ads.
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All the machines run Debian GNU/Linux.
nobody@ciao$ df /var/spool/news
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
ger:/var/spool/news 1464881152 601862368 863018784 42% /var/spool/news
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