474794 - momo-xserve-01 needs more RAM

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations, task)

Description

[Philippe M. Chiasson (:gozer)]

It's got only a measly 2Gb or RAM, and that isn't enough to run 2 build VMs, let alone the target of 4.

I'd go for either a 8G upgrade, or 16G

8G would be sufficient, 16G would me more than needed, but nice

8G is around 300$ and would bring us up to 10G total

16G is around 330$ and we'd have to toss the existing 2 1G stick in there.

I'd go for the 8G upgrade, putting us up at 10G, so 2G per build VM, with 2G to spare for the host OS.

Comment 1

[David Ascher (:davida)]

are your numbers right about 16G being only $30 more?  If so I'd say go for 16G.

Comment 2

[Philippe M. Chiasson (:gozer)]

8Gb kit:  http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/800FB4G08KIT/
16Gb kit: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other World Computing/800FB2G16KIT/

Comment 3

[David Ascher (:davida)]

go for 16.

Comment 4

[Philippe M. Chiasson (:gozer)]

Yes, that's because 16G is 8 x 2G, and 8G is 2x4G.

In that case, since you have the magical plastic card, can you just order that and ship it to mrz @ MoCo in Mountain View ?

Comment 5

[David Ascher (:davida)]

Order Number: L2068658 Date: January 22 2009 4:58 PM

Comment 6

[David Ascher (:davida)]

adding mrz

Comment 7

[Philippe M. Chiasson (:gozer)]

Note: when it's time to install this RAM, it's going to be a perfect time to perform a Software Update, there is at least one EFI upgrade that's waiting in the queue and required a reboot and console access.

Comment 8

[Philippe M. Chiasson (:gozer)]

Fedex Tracking number: 966960557457

According to <http://www.fedex.com/Tracking/Detail?ascend_header=1&clienttype=dotcom&cntry_code=us&language=english&trackNum=966960557457> it has been delivered on Jan 26th at the reception.

mrz, is it with you already ?
davida, who was it addressed to ?

Comment 9

[matthew zeier [:mrz]]

Moving around so it's on the right RADAR.

Comment 10

[Phong Tran [:phong]]

I don't see this package anywhere.

Comment 11

[David Ascher (:davida)]

I'm hoping it was mrz's name, but if not him, then my name because of the CC info.

Comment 12

[matthew zeier [:mrz]]

You shipped it to the wrong location.  We've been trying to track this down in San Jose but I just noticed from the tracking info that it went to Mountain View.   Will need to look around here for it.

Comment 13

[Philippe M. Chiasson (:gozer)]

Ping? Any luck locating this package?

Comment 14

[matthew zeier [:mrz]]

Found it - was tucked away with some Cisco hardware.

For future reference, ship to San Jose, right to the data center.

Comment 15

[Philippe M. Chiasson (:gozer)]

Wicked, now it's only a matter of planning downtime for the next colo visit. Not a problem.

Phong, just let me know when.

Comment 16

[Philippe M. Chiasson (:gozer)]

FYI, I am going to be offline between 2:00-3:00 PDT, unfortunately.

I've shutdown system services, and the machine is ready to be software updated, shutdown, memory installed, restarted.

As long as it's back on the network once rebooted, I should be able to take it from there.

Password for the Administrator account has been reset to:

password

for the time being.

You can ring me up directly if there are any problems, just call my cellphone. (Folks in #maildev/#vancouver can tell you what it is)

Comment 17

[Philippe M. Chiasson (:gozer)]

Installed & Upgraded perfectly.

Comment 18

[Philippe M. Chiasson (:gozer)]

MacOSX 10.4 comm-central trunk build/nightly is powered up and crunching it's first build right now.