[Mageia-sysadm] [1994] enable ecosse again, but with only one buildbot as it might have hw problems

[Thomas Backlund]

nicolas vigier skrev 30.8.2011 00:15:
> On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, root at mageia.org wrote:
>
>> Revision: 1994
>> Author:   tmb
>> Date:     2011-08-29 23:09:08 +0200 (Mon, 29 Aug 2011)
>> Log Message:
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>> enable ecosse again, but with only one buildbot as it might have hw problems
>
> What kind of hw problems do we have on ecosse ? Do we need to replace
> some disk next time someone goes to marseille ?
>

Yeah, I think we need to replace the disc in ecosse.
(and/or check the cabling for the disc)

After some builds it starts to hit ATA bus resets, and everything slows 
down to a crawl...

But I cant get smart to log any failures, not even after a full test or 
after runninng badblocks on the disk. :/

Only thing worth noting is that badblocks took over one week to finish, 
so I'd say that's another sign of something wrong.

And after discussing with people on LKML, they all suggested failing hw



And I'd like to suggest we do build the new box with 2 disks, so 
basesystem would go on raid 1, and either stick the builds on raid0 for 
improved build performance, or on two single disks splitting buildbots 
between them to improve concurrent io

--
Thomas