Re: postgresql.org Weblogs?

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Magnus Hagander wrote:

>>> Marc,
>>>
>>>> Sure ... there is nothing confidential in them, just let
>> us know what
>>>> you want (if you want it) ...
>>>
>>> Yeah, I thought I'd ask now, because presumably you don't keep the
>>> weblogs indefinitely.
>>
>> Actually ... unless a server crashes so that we lose them, we do ...
>> svr1.postgresql (developer) has stuff going back to May 2004
>> ... we used ot have www.postgresql.org *way* back before all
>> the moving around ...
>> pgfoundry.org goes back to May 7th, 2004 ... I'm a pack rat :)
>
> Hmm, IIRC the logs on all the static mirrors are going to /dev/null, for
> performance reasons. Specifiaclly the FreeBSD jails couldn't deal with
> the write activity. We got like 10-15 times better performance after
> disabling it. Got significantly better on the other machines as well
> (linux mirrors), but the freebsd jails was the main reason we set up
> that policy. With logging enabled, all the servers just fell over. IIRC,
> this includes wwwmaster, which we also don't have logs for.

Ya, that's why we've started to work on moving to 5.x ... I'm getting
really tired of the "unsupported version" :(

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