[chavez-tech] Chavez is runing out of disk space

[Chris]

Hi

On Sun 16-Dec-2007 at 03:51:19PM +0100, ng wrote:
> > 
> > Looks like www.indymedia.org.uk would be the best one
> > to kick off 

I have a better idea -- change the UK site to ve served
via squid, caching the publishing server -- one of the
other mirrors works like this already:

  https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Sysadmin/SquidReverseProxy

> > If we could figure out how to stop rsync from royally
> > fscking up these servers then we would need far fewer
> > mirrors worldwide. It shouldn't be rocket science.
> 
> the new rsync 3.0 should be much better. anybody already
> tried it out?!
> 
> http://samba.anu.edu.au/ftp/rsync/rsync-3.0.0pre6-NEWS
> 
> see ENHANCEMENTS sections.
> 
> I'm not sure if it makes sense to have it only updated
> on chavez or it might be better to also update it on all
> other servers which are connection to chavez (where
> possible).

All servers -- you need it at both ends, I have been using
it for some other things and it seems fine, I'll try to
deploy it soon...

> > Web serving could probably also be more efficient. For
> > example, why, on a static mirror, do we use SHTML on
> > every page? Half the content could be served by thttpd
> > instead of Apache if we didn't do that, perhaps all of
> > it, at approximately zero load.

SSI is used for all sorts of things on the UK site -- it's
not optional, perhaps this might work?

  http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/ssi_man.html

> > If not, is there any way we could use a thread worker
> > model in Apache instead of prefork?

Dunno.

Chris