app2 rebuild

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Mon Mar 24 18:02:06 UTC 2008


On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
> hey guys, I'm going to rebuild app2 and stick some of our tg apps on
>  there.  Seth brought up an excellent point earlier in that our tg apps
>  aren't really using any x86_64 code but the python objects they create can
>  be 2-3x larger in memory.  Since most of our performance issues with these
>  apps is memory bloat (and ultimate swap) I'm going to build it as an i686
>  box.  After a week or two we can compare memory footprints.  I'd really
>  like to get some benchmarks done to have some actual data to compare to
>  but I just don't think I'll have time for it (if someone else wants to
>  though I'd greatly appreciate it)
>
>  I'm going to add app2 to the farm with some of our apps like smolt,
>  mirrormanager and pkgdb.  Then compare memory footprints after a week or
>  so.
>
>  Also, the last thing blocking us from app3 is getting mediawiki in EL-5 or
>  in the infrastructure repo.  If someone wants to get together and verify
>  that the newest mediawiki in Fedora will build in EL-5 I'd greatly
>  appreciate it (don't forget about the deps).
>

Mediawiki in F-8 requires ocaml and some other stuff it looks like I
am working through it.



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Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
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