[ewg] Is it possible to upgrage memory in the OFA hosting server

[Steve Wise]

Johann George wrote:
> I can arrange for the disk space and memory to be upgraded.  I'm not
> sure how disruptive it is and am wondering if we should wait until
> after this OFED release is out?
> 
> Johann
> 
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 01:28:27PM +0000, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote:
>> On 10:30 Mon 28 Jan     , Tziporet Koren wrote:
>>>  Many people suffers from the performance of the server, especially since all 
>>>  use it for the cross compilation
>>>  Is it possible to add more memory to this server.
>> It is not only memory problem. This weekend (and it is not first time)
>> the server was almost not functional (mailman, bugzilla, git) due to
>> lack of free space on root fs (and I removed some old files in /tmp).
>>
>> I can see that Vlad cleaned some temporary files, but nobody else cared.
>>
>> Probably it could be useful:
>>
>> 1. to run cleanup script daily or weekly (at least over /tmp and
>>    ~<user>/tmp directories).
>> 2. to publish top10 list of users which consume most disk space on the
>>    server and send them notification by email.
>> 3. to not use the OFA server (which primary goal was to host git,
>>    mailman, bugzilla, wiki, etc.) for builds.
>>

A new server for builds might be the ticket.  Maybe NetApp can donate a 
filer? :)