explanatory gap

Check out that curve! Woo! I’ve got your logarithm right here!

I’m getting hit with Debian bug #278239. What’s happening is I upgraded the kernel on the server to 2.6.x (which gave a significant performance boost) and the standard dpti2o module has been subsumed by the i2oblock and associated modules. I guess the kernel headers changed too, along with the device names/numbers associated with managing […]

I’ve been fighting a running battle against my RAID controller and enclosure for the past two weeks.

We’re getting ready to replace our server. I’m going to start calling it the “master node” because it sounds cooler. Anyway, it’s three years old and the warranty is up, and it’s a 730 MHz Pentium III, so it needs to be replaced. When the cluster is fully active, we see load […]

So this Adaptec card seems to have solved my problems. I set up a script to create about 600 gigs of data, and it ran with no problems, in less than seven hours. I think the average write speed came out to something like 200Mbs, which is totally fine.

I’ve called Dell, and a […]