Hello, On Tue, 17 Mar 2020, Lars Vogdt wrote:
But, I'm sorry, I need to ask the following to avoid problems in the future also with other tumbleweed installs: how often should productive tumbleweed machines see a zypper dup?
I would be fine with "never". It's serving static web pages without any interactive content.
"Never" is a bad option for anything that has connection to the bad world which is called "internet".
Sure, I get that.
If this machine is just serving static pages, why do we need a machine at all? We already have a cluster of machines doing that for a couple of other openSUSE pages (like static.o.o, fontinfo.o.o, shop.o.o, people.o.o) ... It would make much more sense and produce less work if static pages could be consolidated on that cluster.
History. It also does some local processing of data to generate some pages (meanwhile most of that went to some other machine). But also the data it serves (which aren't just HTML pages) is overall 22GiB. And eventually the processing it does should move back from lnt.opensuse.org to gcc.opensuse.org, whenever we find time to do that. So, for now, a separate VM is just fine.
Hey: I broke it, I will fix it. Not today any more (sorry, too late for me), but I promise to get it back to live tomorrow. We should even still have a snapshot of the machine from last week available, if that would be ok for you - and we don't loose important data on the machine (as the snapshot will restore exactly the state the week before).
That's okay. The master data sits somewhere else, just the rsync will shuffle more data.
OK: I learned that we have currently just snapshots 3 days back :-(
I upgraded the machine now from a Tumbleweed 2017 installation to the current 20200314 one - and activated chronyd and remote syslog. A first look around did not show any real problems (only your / is at 87.0%) - but you know for sure better than me if there are some issues.
Thank you. Works again. The filling of / is currently no problem (we could remove more packages, but there's not pressing need). Ciao, Michael. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: heroes+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: heroes+owner@opensuse.org