[squeak-dev] Re: Build.squeak.org and squeaksource.com in danger
(was Re: [Box-Admins] Disk space usage on box3)
Ken Causey
ken at kencausey.com
Mon Dec 9 20:02:31 UTC 2013
I want to respond to some comments made in this thread.
First I want to admit that my posting on Friday was a bit shrill. I was
getting frustrated that this was my third or fourth post on this
increasingly problematic issue and little if any action had been taken.
Further there seemed a real possibility that over the next few days,
possibly over the weekend when I had little time to provide assistance,
that the file system for the server which hosts both build.squeak.org
and squeaksource.com would fill up. I have seen greater than 1% per 24
hour increases on that server in the past.
Thanks to Frank the immediate issue has been addressed and hopefully we
have a couple of weeks of breathing time now to consider how best to
avoid the issue in the future.
There has been some discussion regarding my admittedly somewhat extreme
comments regarding squeaksource.com. One thing that has been mentioned
is the idea that 'disk space is cheap'. I think that is easy to say and
true in general, but I'm not sure it is true in this specific case. I
will admit to possibly over-estimating the 'cost' but... Keep in mind
that we have no direct control over the configuration of either
box3.squeak.org and box4.squeak.org. These were contributed to us by
Gandi.net at the request of the Software Freedom Conservancy. Neither I
nor anyone else in our community has any access to modify the server
configuration and do things like add disk space. At best we have to go
through Software Freedom Conservancy for this. They don't have a lot of
time to spare to such issues themselves, further I don't think we should
make assumptions that Gandi.net is going to be willing to donate more
resources. I'm not sure it is even easy to throw money at the issue
given the fact that we are using donated resources. But then, I may
just be unreasonably pessimistic about this.
Someone kindly thanked me and gave the impression that I was the only
one that 'cared' enough to monitor the servers for such issues. Thanks
but don't assign me too much altruism or think that I'm so interested.
The minor amount of daily server checking I do is largely habit for me
and is an easy way for me to trigger a few endorphins and feel like I
have in some way contributed for the day.
To be honest my interest in Squeak and the community has been waning for
some time and is quite low at this point. Don't assume I'm going to
continue to do what little I do indefinitely. Someone else must step up
to take responsibility for the Squeak servers.
Ken
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