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  * Could run the server in a virtual machine, which would support ext4. But are virtual machines fast enough these days? They weren't last year. This would be worth trying.

Upgrade, flask, sage 4.7, and ext4 filesystem

People: W. Stein, J. Grout

Database

  • If we stick with the filesystem: NEED a very fast filesystem that supports > 4 million inodes and > 32000 directories per directory, i.e., ext4. This is difficult because boxen and sage.math are both Ubuntu 8.10.

  • Also, want to at a minimum have user and worksheet metadata stored in database so startup is faster.
  • Could run the server in a virtual machine, which would support ext4. But are virtual machines fast enough these days? They weren't last year. This would be worth trying.

Current Servers

Backup Strategy

  • ?

Untrusted User Code: must all be executed in a virtual machine

  • ?

Monitoring

days31/workinggroups/sagenb (last edited 2011-06-17 16:35:25 by was)