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A View From The Server Room
by bernie — published Oct 11, 2011 — last modified Oct 12, 2011 06:04 PM
I'm the latest member to join the systems team at the Free Software Foundation. Prior to joining the FSF, I lived in Italy where I designed firmware and embedded systems for several high-tech companies in the Florence area.
Located in Bulletins / 2010 / Fall 2010 Bulletin
Blog Entry Behind the scenes of the new GNU mailing list server
by bernie — published May 27, 2011
The GNU list server is a monster machine serving lists.gnu.org, lists.nongnu.org and a few other domains. Every day, it spools out over 1 million messages for 2700 mailing lists. Until April 11, our venerable list server was an 8-year old Fedora Core 2 (!) box equipped with 6 high-speed SCSI drives organized in two RAID packs to maximize I/O bandwidth. These drives were incessantly cranking every day, as Mailman forwarded incoming posts to thousands of subscribers over a saturated T1 uplink at the FSF headquarters.
Located in Blogs / Sysadmin
Blog Entry application/x-troff-me Savannah and www.gnu.org downtime
by bernie — published Nov 30, 2010 — last modified Dec 02, 2010 01:35 AM
Over the weekend, Savannah was compromised. Here's a chronological account of the events:
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