[Box-Admins] Re: squeaksource.com transition to new server

Tue Sep 17 00:47:52 UTC 2013

Our copy of squeaksource.com is now running in its own ssdotcom account
on box3.squeak.org on port 8888, with a supervisory script that restarts
the image in the event of failure. I fixed a problem with reloading the
repository on image restart (the one that caused email spam storms on restart),
and I have the hourly automatic image process working again (it needed to
do the image save from the UI thread).

Everything seems to be working at this point, so I now need to figure out
how to bring this up under Apache behind port 80. I will have limited free
time over the next week, so this may not happen for a few more days.
Meanwhile, if anyone wants to put some load on http://box3.squeak.org:8888,
please do so. Extra credit to anyone who can break it :-)

Dave

On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 06:05:19PM -0400, David T. Lewis wrote:
> An update on the SqueakSource move:
> 
> I have moved our copy of squeaksource.com from my personal user account
> on box3.squeak.org to a newly created account ssdotcom on the same
> server. All files are now owned by ssdotcom, and the server image is
> running from a supervisory script ~ssdtocom/SqueakSource/runimage.sh that
> will restart the image in the event of failure (although that it is not
> yet wired in to the system start scripts).
> 
> Our copy of squeaksource.com has been running without problems on
> http://box3.squeak.org:8888 (albeit with no load) for about three weeks,
> so I have moved it to the dedicated ssdotcom account, and I will continue
> to keep it active there until we can finalize the move.
> 
> The most important thing I need to do next is get it running behind
> Apache on port 80. Unfortunately I have no real experience setting
> up Apache, so there is a chance that I may screw things up build.squeak.org
> (which runs on box3 also), so apologies in advance if that happens.
> 
> I am keeping some notes in our admin log on box3 /root/admin-log.txt,
> so if anything looks broken please look there to see how I broke it.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 08:38:01AM -0400, David T. Lewis wrote:
> > FYI, I am currently consuming a large amount of disk space on build.squeak.org
> > for testing squeaksource migration. Let me know if this causes any problems.
> > 
> > Over the weekend I was able to bring up a full copy of squeaksource.com
> > on my home PC. I worked around a couple of problems and got the in-image
> > repository updated (so it won't spam the mailing lists after a SqueakSource
> > restart), and I disabled mail delivery. I then copied the entire thing to
> > my user directory on build.squeak.org.
> > 
> > This is just a temporary test and is not yet properly installed, but
> > anyone interested can connect to it on http://build.squeak.org:8888.
> > VNC is running on display 1, please ask if you would like the password
> > (this list is archived so I won't mention the password here).
> > 
> > I do need some help to identify the right location for the real installation.
> > Will this be on box4? If so, can I please get an account?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
> > 
> > On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 01:12:22PM -0400, David T. Lewis wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 09:50:08PM -0400, David T. Lewis wrote:
> > > > We now have access to a complete snapshot copy of SqueakSource. I am
> > > > in the process of retrieving the files to my personal PC (not yet complete,
> > > > I'm still trying to get a clean copy of one large 15GB file), and I will
> > > > now need a place to put them on squeak.org.
> > > > 
> > > > I need some help to proceed. We need a server with 20 to 30 GB of file space
> > > > available for the SqueakSource files, and with memory and CPU resources
> > > > similar to whatever we are currently doing for source.squeak.org.
> > > > 
> > > > Can someone help, either by giving me access to an existing server, or by
> > > > letting me know what is available? I will need a user account (lewis) similar
> > > > to my current account on build.squeak.org, and I will need sudo privilege
> > > > to set up an account for squeaksource and to set up the runtime environment.
> > > > 
> > > > In addition it would be helpful if I could get enough access to the
> > > > source.squeak.org server so that I can look at it and figure out how that
> > > > server is configured. Even better would be if the source.squeak.org
> > > > server has enough capacity (mainly disk space) to also host squeaksource,
> > > > in which case we can put both of them on the same server.
> > > > 
> > > > I would like to do this as soon as possible (tomorrow perhaps?) so any
> > > > assistance and pointers will be gratefully received.
> > > >
> > > 
> > > I now (finally) have a complete copy of the SqueakSource files sitting on
> > > my hard drive here in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Here is what we have:
> > > 
> > >   -rw-r--r-- 1 lewis users 16341844652 2013-08-24 04:21 Squeaksource-projects-22-8-2013.tar
> > >   -rw-r--r-- 1 lewis users     5558656 2013-08-23 08:20 Squeak-3.9-8-SqueakSource.app.tar
> > >   -rw-r--r-- 1 lewis users   167474616 2013-08-23 08:19 squeaksource.image
> > >   -rw-r--r-- 1 lewis users    15721301 2013-08-23 08:18 squeaksource.changes
> > >   -rw-r--r-- 1 lewis users         718 2013-08-23 08:18 squeaksource.com
> > >   -rw-r--r-- 1 lewis users        1686 2013-08-23 08:17 Workspace.text
> > >   -rw-r--r-- 1 lewis users    14542313 2013-08-23 08:17 SqueakV3.sources
> > > 
> > > After unpacking the files (these are compressed tars), the total disk usage
> > > is a bit over 16 GB:
> > > 
> > >   lewis at linux-jh8m:~/squeak/SS/TransitionToSqueakDotOrg/WORK> du -s *
> > >   21564   Squeak-3.9-8-SqueakSource.app
> > >   15356   squeaksource.changes
> > >   4       squeaksource.com
> > >   163552  squeaksource.image
> > >   14204   SqueakV3.sources
> > >   16401280        ss
> > >   4       Workspace.text
> > > 
> > > So a server with 20GB working space is sufficient, and 30GB would provide
> > > comfortable headroom.
> > > 
> > > Dave
> > >  