[1980] in Moira
Oracle 8/Athena 9.0 test Moira server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Sat Aug 10 06:12:23 2002
Message-Id: <200208101012.GAA02637@riff-raff.mit.edu>
To: moira-admin@MIT.EDU, moiradev@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 06:12:20 -0400
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
I have a configuration I hope is very close to the eventual new
Moira server up and running on wrong-tool; it's running Athena
9.0/Solaris 8/Oracle 8.1.7 with a copy of ttsp's database. It also has
ttsp's klogin.
I've done some testing of the DCM .gen's and not found any
problems yet, nor have any of the queries failed yet, but I haven't done
as much testing as I would like. I plan to do more soon.
Configuration for the machine can be found at
/mit/ops/services/moira.new, which is analagous in structure to
/mit/ops/services/moira. A document describing how to install the
machine is located at /mit/ops/doc/admin/moira/moira.install.oracle8.
It's still a work in progress but I did verify yesterday that following
the instructions there gets you a working machine.
Relevant details for people who care about such things:
- The new hardware configuration is a Sun Fire 280R with dual
750 MHz processors and 2GB of memory; it is identical to the
current dialups in configuration.
- It has 2 Sun StorEdge S1 disk arrays (JBOD) attached, with 3 x
18 GB disks in each, and is doing software mirroring via
Disksuite across all partitions (/, /var/usr/vice, swap, /u1,
/u2, /u3).
- It's running an OpenAFS 1.2.3 client built from the Athena 9.1
source tree with data encryption enabled. A benefit of this
is that the backups will be encrypted when copied into AFS.
- Big DCM .gens (hosts, mailhub) seem about 33% faster after I
did some performance tuning. I could probably get them faster
if I try, but I'm not sure it's worth it.
Feel free to log into it and look around; the current moira
sources from CVS should just build, and the Pro*C development
environment is basically the same. perl DBI and the DBD::Oracle driver
are available and have been upgraded to newer versions as well (we're a
couple of years out of date on both on the current servers). If you log
into the machine to build Moira binaries, the new $ORACLE_HOME you want
is:
setenv ORACLE_HOME /u1/oracle/app/oracle/product/8.1.7
ORACLE_SID remains "moira".
Assuming no problems with this machine are found, I'm expecting
a new moira server to be ready for deployment in early September,
although I could probably have it done before the end of August if
getting it done before classes begin is strongly desired (I'll be away
the week of Aug 30 - Sep 6)
Let me know if there are any questions.
Garry
