[arch-dev-public] space problems on gerolde

[Dusty Phillips]

2008/10/20 Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com>:
> Eliott and I discussed this when he was a dev. We thought the best
> idea would be to have a second server that was almost exclusively a
> database machine, so no need for direct public access and could be
> served off the second ethernet interface that is currently sitting
> unused on gerolde. Offloading the DB to another machine would free up
> a lot of RAM and allow a lot more caching to be done (reducing IO
> waits), as well as giving the DB completely dedicated resources on
> another machine.

If this means we can have memcached on one or the other of the two
machines, I'm all for it.

Dusty