[Imc-summaries] IMC-Tech Summary For September 20th 2001

[evan@protest.net]

SUMMARY:
	Server problems
	Indymedia FAQ
	Search is broken
	Load Balancing Project - Edgenet
	Memory Purchase
	Query Safari
	New Upgrade Script
	Push To Eye Problems
	Indymedia over the phone

CODE UPDATES
        Mir
	Active XML-RPC


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Server Problems
        Due to heavy load stallman has been having lots of problems.
	Many people have had problems publishing articles, and
	comments. Search is also broken. As a result more ram
	has been ordered and some brave techies have gone on
	query safari to capture and tame some errant sql.


Indymedia FAQ
	The imc-process and general@indymedia.org working group
	has put together a wonderful indymedia faq. It's been
	posted to the process site.
	http://process.indymedia.org/faq.php3


Search is broken
        Ok, i'm sick of getting email about search being broken.
	We know! Use google. Maybe if we get the queries under
	control, add more ram, have traffic ease up, search
	will start working better.
	http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aindymedia.org


Load Balancing Project - Edgenet
        During the Tech_2 gathering Bill from London outlined
	a project for distributed load balancing system.
	Basically it's an interesting combination of squid, dns
	tricks, and some human intervention in to a management
	website. This project needs people to help work on it.
	http://www.abduction.org/edgenet/


Memory Purchase
        More memory for Stallman has been purchased! With this
	additional 512 megs, stallman will have a full gig of
	ram.

http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-September/005258.html


Query Safari
        Active hits the database too much.


New Upgrade Script
        Kevin's written up a new upgrade script and procedure.
	http://tech.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=273


Push To Eye Problems
        The scripts which move content over to the loudeye
	(images.indymedia.org) server has been having problems.
	Andy has been working to rewrite it. If you're noticing
	your images disappear after about 10 minutes then
	you're having a push to eye problem. Also we've been
	having problems due to the directories getting
	too full.
	http://tech.indymedia.org:8081/front.php3?article_id=272


Indymedia Over the Phone
	It's not setup yet but the scripts are there to let
	people listen to indymedia audio reports over the phone.
	http://tech.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=258



------------------------CODE UPDATES-----------------------

Mir Coders Meeting
        Mir development has been continuing on the mir list and
	development servers. It's good stuff but i don't think
	there is anything ground breaking to announce just yet.
	http://tech.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=271
	http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/mir-coders/

Active XML-RPC
        More updates to active xml-rpc as version 0.9.2 is out.
	This includes a filter handler API, thumbnails, loudeye
	mirror handler, better make files, and more nifty stuff.
        Idanso is going on vacation for 3 weeks to the US so
	this is the last update for a while. If you've been waiting
	for active xml-rpc to be stable for a while, now's the
	time to take it for a spin.
	http://tech.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=274

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