VGER news

VGER news

[Matti Aarnio]

Folks at Dell have donated a new machine to be VGER, and
folks at RedHat have installed it into co-location facility
with 1000Mbps network connection into the machine.

This update got considerable performance increase into the
machine for our list loads.  In terms of Bogomips around 7-8,
but for actual loads nearly twice as much.

We did system switchover last weekend, and nobody reacted trulu
adversely.    Probably nobody noticed it either.   :-)


/Matti Aarnio

Re: VGER news

[Petr Vandrovec]

Matti Aarnio wrote:

> We did system switchover last weekend, and nobody reacted trulu
> adversely.    Probably nobody noticed it either.   :-)

Ah, that's the reason why commit messages are now sent from
git-commits-head-owner@vger.kernel.org instead of from
bk-commits-head-owner@vger.kernel.org like they were until
Friday ?
					Best regards,
						Petr Vandrovec

Re: VGER news

[Matti Aarnio]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 04:31:30PM +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> Matti Aarnio wrote:
> 
> >We did system switchover last weekend, and nobody reacted trulu
> >adversely.    Probably nobody noticed it either.   :-)
> 
> Ah, that's the reason why commit messages are now sent from
> git-commits-head-owner@vger.kernel.org instead of from
> bk-commits-head-owner@vger.kernel.org like they were until
> Friday ?
> 					Best regards,
> 						Petr Vandrovec

That is probably something else.
Davem may have changed list name at this time as well.

  /Matti Aarnio

Re: VGER news

[David S. Miller]

From: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 17:47:18 +0300

> Davem may have changed list name at this time as well.

Yes, I did a s/bk-/git-/ on those list names last week
while I was in the UK due to popular request.

Re: VGER news

[Jan Engelhardt]

>Folks at Dell have donated a new machine to be VGER, and
>folks at RedHat have installed it into co-location facility
>with 1000Mbps network connection into the machine.

May 24 2004 on kernel.org:
  ISC has upgraded our outbound connection to 1000 Mbit/s. Thanks!

So you have 2000 Mbps now?

>This update got considerable performance increase into the
>machine for our list loads.  In terms of Bogomips around 7-8,
>but for actual loads nearly twice as much.

Wow, that's a lot of bogomips. That's just a little faster than my 386 
(running 2.6.13-rc1): http://jengelh.hopto.org/GFX0/proc386.jpg

>We did system switchover last weekend, and nobody reacted trulu
>adversely.    Probably nobody noticed it either.   :-)
>
>/Matti Aarnio

Or were you missing a 'k' suffix in the bogo number <grin> + ;-)



Jan Engelhardt
-- 
| Alphagate Systems, http://alphagate.hopto.org/

Re: VGER news

[Erik Mouw]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 04:33:47PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> >Folks at Dell have donated a new machine to be VGER, and
> >folks at RedHat have installed it into co-location facility
> >with 1000Mbps network connection into the machine.
> 
> May 24 2004 on kernel.org:
>   ISC has upgraded our outbound connection to 1000 Mbit/s. Thanks!

That's www and ftp.kernel.org, the archive server.

> So you have 2000 Mbps now?

No, this time vger.kernel.org (the mailing list server) got an 1000
Mbit/s connection.

> >This update got considerable performance increase into the
> >machine for our list loads.  In terms of Bogomips around 7-8,
> >but for actual loads nearly twice as much.
> 
> Wow, that's a lot of bogomips. That's just a little faster than my 386 
> (running 2.6.13-rc1): http://jengelh.hopto.org/GFX0/proc386.jpg

Matti is talking about an increase, which implies a difference.


Erik

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| Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands

Re: VGER news

[Matti Aarnio]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 04:39:24PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 04:33:47PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > 
> > >Folks at Dell have donated a new machine to be VGER, and
> > >folks at RedHat have installed it into co-location facility
> > >with 1000Mbps network connection into the machine.
> > 
> > May 24 2004 on kernel.org:
> >   ISC has upgraded our outbound connection to 1000 Mbit/s. Thanks!
> 
> That's www and ftp.kernel.org, the archive server.

Different location, different services.

> > So you have 2000 Mbps now?
> 
> No, this time vger.kernel.org (the mailing list server) got
> an 1000 Mbit/s connection.
> 
> > >This update got considerable performance increase into the
> > >machine for our list loads.  In terms of Bogomips around 7-8,
> > >but for actual loads nearly twice as much.
> > 
> > Wow, that's a lot of bogomips. That's just a little faster than my 386 
> > (running 2.6.13-rc1): http://jengelh.hopto.org/GFX0/proc386.jpg
> 
> Matti is talking about an increase, which implies a difference.

In "absolute" terms about 5600 BogoMips, although all bogos are
not quite the same...   (E.g. Coppermine -> Xeon gives a bit
more difference than just bogos would imply.)

> Erik

/Matti Aarnio

Re: VGER news

[Jan Engelhardt]

>In "absolute" terms about 5600 BogoMips, although all bogos are
>not quite the same...   (E.g. Coppermine -> Xeon gives a bit
>more difference than just bogos would imply.)

Would dhry- and whetstones be more accurate across CPUs?

Re: VGER news

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 17:12 +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> We did system switchover last weekend, and nobody reacted trulu
> adversely.    Probably nobody noticed it either.   :-) 

It's definitely faster.  Lately I have had a few replies to list
messages where the reply hit LKML several minutes before my inbox.  This
*never* happened before the changeover.

Lee

Re: VGER news

[Willy Tarreau]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 05:12:17PM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> Folks at Dell have donated a new machine to be VGER, and
> folks at RedHat have installed it into co-location facility
> with 1000Mbps network connection into the machine.
> 
> This update got considerable performance increase into the
> machine for our list loads.  In terms of Bogomips around 7-8,
> but for actual loads nearly twice as much.
> 
> We did system switchover last weekend, and nobody reacted trulu
> adversely.    Probably nobody noticed it either.   :-)

OK, I better understand now why the message I posted this morning
from mutt on tty1 was already caught by the other mutt when I switched
to tty2 to check other messages on the list. I can imagine that from
now, we'll get a very good interactivity again.

Thanks,
Willy