Re: Load on udd.d.o
On 24/10/11 at 15:24 +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Oct 2011, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
>
> > Also, wouldn't it be possible to just add more RAM to samosa ? It only
> > has 6 GB, and RAM isn't that expensive nowadays. With <$1000, we could
> > probably get a significant performance increase.
>
> I don't think it'd be easy, no. Many DDs seem to not understand that
> most machines debian has are several years old by now. 6 gigs on a i386
> machine already is an awful lot. We just don't have enough new hardware
> to go around.
>
> Samosa for instance is a DL380-g3, a model that was *retired* by its
> manufaturer in January 2005.
>
> Maximum memory configuration on this particular model is 6 gig, the
> machine is maxxed out.
OK, I see. But given that Debian has some spare money, why don't we
renew those such machines that are very old, out of warranty, etc?
Lucas
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