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5 June 2007 Athena Release Team Status Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Tue Jun 5 15:53:24 2007
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
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Team Name: Athena Release Team
Report Date: 5 June 2007
Submitted by: Bill Cattey
Team URL: http://web.mit.edu/teamhtml/Athena/
Release URL: http://web.mit.edu/release/www/
Accomplishments past period:
ONGOING: Testing and bug fixing of current Athena release.
Last Month's goals:
ONGOING: Testing and bug fixing of current Athena release.
DELAYED: Finish Solaris 10 installer integration for summer's Athena
full release.(Still awaiting server upgrade.)
CHANGED: Look into using the GNU Mailutils as an IMAP and Kerberos 5
compliant drop-in replacement for mh. (Deferred until there is Kerberos
5 support on the Mail servers, and then investigate a narrower solution
possibly addressing just the inc command rather than the whole mh
suite.)
DELAYED: Create new Linux installer based on a more current RHEL 4
Kernelthat includes necessary drivers for Dell Optiplex 745.
DELAYED: Continue investigating installing VMWare player on Athena
machines.
DONE: Code a patch to turn on the noapic boot option on the hardware
affected by the clock problem.
PROGRESS: Investigate a mechanism to offer special video drivers to
cluster systems by default and to private systems as an opt-in.
Community Milestones Met:
Other Accomplishments:
* Fixed two different problems that were causing the Nautilus file
browser to crash.
* Did Firefox 2.0 integration.
* Integrated Solaris security patches.
Next month's goals:
ONGOING: Testing and bug fixing of current Athena release.
OLD: Finish Solaris 10 installer integration for summer's Athena full
release.(Still awaiting server upgrade.)
OLD: Create new Linux installer based on a more current RHEL 4 Kernel
that includes necessary drivers for Dell Optiplex 745.
OLD: Continue investigating installing VMWare player on Athena machines.
OLD: Investigate a mechanism to offer special video drivers to
cluster systems by default and to private systems as an opt-in.
Next Community Milestone(s):
Patch release currently scheduled for June 18 containing Firefox 2.0,
the patch to fix the IBM S50 "clock runs backwards" problem, update of
Linux to RHEL 4.5, and Solaris security patches.
Issues:
Kerberos 4 mail clients like mh, xmh, and exmh are going to die when
Kerberos 4 is shut down. Our plan is to investigate amending inc to
support Kerberos 5 as soon as the mail servers get Kerberos 5 support.
Key learnings:
Additional comments:
Athena Monthly machine counts:
Method: On install, machines get a unique ID. Each day every system
reports its existence to a central syslog. This method over-counts
systems installed multiple times. Systems running Athena than 9.0 or
earlier are not counted.
Summary: Here we see the effect of cluster renewal beginning to
replace Suns with Linux systems.
SYSTYPE 12/06 01/07 02/07 03/07 04/07 05/07 Delta
LINUX 773 813 822 810 798 774 -24
SUN 341 329 337 320 315 308 -7
Count of systems registered for RHN (Non Athena update):
Date 12/06 01/07 02/07 03/07 04/07 05/07 Delta
Total 1426 1541 1620 1764 1811 1840 +29
Inactive 722 791 860 937 969 987 +18
Active 704 750 760 827 842 853 +11
Monthly Athena Login counts:
Method: By reviewing of the logs of the service that makes
personalized notifications to users at login time, we are able to count
the number of unique Athena logins. Here we display the total number of
logins over a four week period, the number of logins by unique user ID
and the median number of logins per unique user ID.
Date: 12/06 01/07 02/07 03/07 04/07 05/07
Total: 198853 177729 253845 225843 250846 217514
Unique: 10016 9270 10108 9838 9867 9730
Median: 7 5 10 9 10 8
Breakdown for current month:
(Total of unique logins will be less than the sum of the sources,
since each source login only gets counted once.)
Total logins for four week period ending June 2, 2007:
217514 ( other 137490 quickstation 32080 cluster 47944 )
Unique logins for four week period:
9730 ( other 6298 quickstation 6098 cluster 5462 )
Median logins for four week period:
8 ( other 4 quickstation 3 cluster 5 )
