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What is the best process to address finding capacity to run a new server? We need to look at the "whole problem." Solutions could include consolidation of machines and environments. A group should be formed of Sys Admins Hoover and Nakagama, a couplprogramners, Jantz, and Sterback.
Are there short term expedients that will let us get Drupal launched? We also need to make an overallplan for expansion and maintenance of infrastructure.
In the meantime, there seems to be 2 possible expedient paths:
A: Rollback the current development version of Drupal to PHP4 to match the libserv4 environment and move the developemnt environment to a different SCC server (sharing the OCR development machine and Wand-Dev). (Yang will need to test the OCR after Sho adjusts the environment to match libserv4). After the new drupal dev envirnment is set up and tested it can be tested on libserv4.
B: Move the drupal dev server across the river to systems and test it to see if it can run Drupal, under load, as a production machine.
C: Put drupal on Reaper64 and see how it performs...?
(Agenda re-ordered)
Choong gave a brief overview including membership and that a meeting is scheduled for next week.
Steps to optomize:
Not specifically discussed.
Vertigo and Bogart to be moved to reaper64
Vertigo ready. Move as-is.
Bogart - triggs needs to update with library info and navigation.
Coins has been removed (not publically accessibel due to rights).
ETD's - Wait until October when graduation is over. (must be done late October - late November before next round)
OJS - 2.2.2 is out (Sept 28) Shaun and Sho will work on an upgrade.
Not specifically discussed.
Next meeting: November 3, 2008; Mov 17, 2008
1. Sam, Choong
Install Paros www.parosproxy.org
get numbers for current drupal-dev and production (start an excel worksheet)
for find articles, indexes a-z a description, and test123
Others: do similar numbers (plus some html pages) and add 'old sirsi machine'
try devel http://drupal.org/project/devel
on drupal dev
capture numbers
Should we also do myTop?
2. Choong
Fix the broken path to
remove (as it is duplicated)
(on drupal-dev)
change MOST css to be called via a link tag rather than an import
per
http://nadeausoftware.com/articles/2007/03/speed_drupal_web_site_enabling_css_file_aggregation
a CSS "@import" statement, (which) bypasses Drupal's aggregation.
04rul-style2.css should remain an import
3. Choong
Make local copies of the rul styles
@import url(/rul/includes/04rul-style2.css);
4. Choong
Copy over whole website to drupal-dev and relavise.
including javascripts etc.
emulate proxy tests?
(skip form processor?; skip OVID connection scripts)
Dave will copy /u4/ and apache config to drupal-dev
5. Re-do metrics in 1 with paros, devel. also do html pages
6. Sho and Dave
Synchronize/match Apache configuration, maxClients etc.
7. try Boost on drupal-dev
http://drupal.org/project/boost
capture numbers using Paros (as devel shoudl be off is this is to be a
static test)
sync with Dave to set up Boost on production machine etc.
8. Re-do metrics in 1 with paros, devel. also do html pages
9. try load testing on drupal-dev & 'old sirsi machine'
maybe use Apache J-meter http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/
or somtheing else at http://opensourcetesting.org/performance.php
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