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Subject: kernel.org rsync processes

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Linus Torvalds· Sep 21, 2005, 15:12 UTC · re: A Large Angry SCM · lore

Re: kernel.org rsync processes

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, A Large Angry SCM wrote:
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> Did the kernel.org rsync processes get stuck again?

It may still see the effect of a disk failure.. According to hpa as of Monday evening:

> zeus2.kernel.org is coming back online after a severe disk failure.
> It's pretty out of date (in particular, it's missed the daily --checksum
> syncs), and I think it's still rebuilding its RAID, so it's running slow.

So it looks like kernel.org just had a few difficult days (fist the move of master, then some problems at the outer fringes).

		Linus
Randal L. Schwartz· Sep 21, 2005, 15:16 UTC · re: Linus Torvalds · lore

Re: kernel.org rsync processes

>>>>> "Linus" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

Linus> So it looks like kernel.org just had a few difficult days (fist the move Linus> of master, then some problems at the outer fringes).

It has to adjust to the Oregon rain content. :)
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H. Peter Anvin· Sep 21, 2005, 15:48 UTC · re: Linus Torvalds · lore

Re: kernel.org rsync processes

Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, A Large Angry SCM wrote:
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>>Did the kernel.org rsync processes get stuck again?
> 
> 
> It may still see the effect of a disk failure.. According to hpa as of 
> Monday evening:
> 
> 
>>zeus2.kernel.org is coming back online after a severe disk failure.
>>It's pretty out of date (in particular, it's missed the daily --checksum
>>syncs), and I think it's still rebuilding its RAID, so it's running slow.
> 
> 
> So it looks like kernel.org just had a few difficult days (fist the move
> of master, then some problems at the outer fringes).
>

Yep. I'm actually a bit puzzled over just how long it seems to be taking to rebuild the RAID on zeus2, and the level of slowdown it seems to carry with it, especially not since we have turned off user traffic to that host completely.

	-hpa

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