On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 23:04 +0200, Christian Rose wrote: > tis 2005-09-20 klockan 13:24 +0700 skrev Ross Golder: > > On à., 2005-09-19 at 23:07 +0200, Keld JÃrn Simonsen wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 02:11:32AM +0700, Ross Golder wrote: > > > > On ???., 2005-09-16 at 18:03 +0200, Keld JÃrn Simonsen wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 03:37:51PM +0200, Danilo Åegan wrote: > > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > > > > > > > Maybe we should look into providing alternative status pages until > > > > > > Carlos responds. Anyone with a strong machine with a lot of unused > > > > > > CPU cycles on a fat-pipe willing to donate a couple of hours of > > > > > > runtime a day for our l10n-status pages? > > > > > > > > > > We could do that, at klid.dk. We did provide some alternate status for > > > > > gnome-i18n some years ago, so we have some idea of what is involved. > > > > > We have a 100 Mbit connection and quite some spare CPU cycles. Anyway > > > > > we would like to have it running in the night and niced. Please mail me > > > > > with info on how to proceed. > > > > > > > > Sounds good. Perhaps we should arrange for 'status.gnome.org' to point > > > > to the machine that hosts these pages. > > > > > > Hmm, I thought you had another offer. Anyway, I am still willing to > > > help. > > > > If you'd prefer not to host it on your own server, and if there is > > willing to maintain it, I expect some space could possibly be arranged > > on one of the real gnome.org servers. It's just easier for the GNOME > > sysadmins to set up a DNS entry than it is to set up new user accounts > > and a secure/capable hosting area etc. It would probably get rolling > > quicker if hosted externally, at least to begin with ;) > > I agree with Ross; an external solution is probably the best in the > short run, but in the long run, GNOME translation status pages and the > translation status page scripts make sense to have hosted on the > gnome.org servers. That will make sure that: > > * There are always several people distributed around the world who can > access the machine and fix it if needed (gnome.org sysadmins) > * The pipe is already a *very* Fat (tm) one > * The status pages will not be inaccessible again when some single > individual moves/goes on vacation/loses his job/gets hit by a bus and is > unable to maintain them > * The translation status pages will have access to the repository which > sits right next to it at the very same location > > The only thing needed for the translation status pages to be hosted at > the real, live gnome.org servers is for someone to figure out what kind > of CPU/memory/disk resources it needs, and is prepared to help set it > up, or at least give sufficient instructions for having it set up. > > So what's the required configuration? root gandalf:/srv/l10n # du -hs . 6.9G . and the process takes near 4 hours with an AMD Sempron(tm) 2800+ and 768MB of RAM With more RAM and faster CPU the process should be also faster. The main problem here is the hard disk I/O that's why we had to move it outside widget the first time, the server load was really high. As I said in other email, I don't mind to give shell access to you (Christian), danilo or any GNOME admin to have a "backup" Cheers. > > > Christian > -- Carlos Perellà MarÃn Ubuntu Hoary (PowerPC) => http://www.ubuntulinux.org Linux Registered User #121232 mailto:carlos pemas net || mailto:carlos gnome org http://carlos.pemas.net Valencia - Spain
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