The systems behind systhread

This site is completely powered by Open Source software. It consists of four systems, one of which the author has no control over except that it is an open source system - that would be the webhosting provider who offers open source systems as a hosting option (which is what I chose). The systems behind the site are another matter. This page details what they are, what they run and how they are used (or abused as the case may be ... ).

PC Servers

I resist the tempation to call them servers as the two testing/infrastructure systems are just off the shelf hardware. The two infrastructure boxes essentially serve as test beds and backup machines for the main system - a laptop. The hardware is identical so here is the information from the one that was Debian:

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 11
model name      : Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU                1000MHz
stepping        : 1
cpu MHz         : 997.909
cache size      : 256 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge \
                      mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
bogomips        : 1998.49

MemTotal:       119124 kB
MemFree:         12828 kB
Buffers:          4592 kB
Cached:          67536 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:          70096 kB
Inactive:        21756 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       119124 kB
LowFree:         12828 kB
SwapTotal:      369452 kB
SwapFree:       369404 kB
Dirty:            1376 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
Mapped:          26592 kB
Slab:            11632 kB
CommitLimit:    429012 kB
Committed_AS:    33192 kB
PageTables:        424 kB
VmallocTotal:   917200 kB
VmallocUsed:      2376 kB
VmallocChunk:   914432 kB

Not exactly golden but they do the job - both are tracking their respective OS at close to or at current-release/head (depends on how much spare time I have for either) and the OSes are NetBSD and FreeBSD.

The LapDog

A laptop - and quite a nice one I might add - actually ended up becoming my workstation/mobile/everything system. The hardware, again, not too impressive but it still does the job and quite well. The laptop is set to dual boot either Debian or NetBSD. I tend to leave it in one or the other for days on end as I can access files in a common area.

Here are the laptop stats from Linux:

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 13
model name      : Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor         1.30GHz
stepping        : 6
cpu MHz         : 1298.975
cache size      : 1024 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca \
                        cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe
bogomips        : 2580.48

MemTotal:       499460 kB
MemFree:         17476 kB
Buffers:         44308 kB
Cached:         306388 kB
SwapCached:          8 kB
Active:         247584 kB
Inactive:       198664 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       499460 kB
LowFree:         17476 kB
SwapTotal:     1461872 kB
SwapFree:      1461864 kB
Dirty:               4 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
Mapped:         125768 kB
Slab:            29232 kB
CommitLimit:   1711600 kB
Committed_AS:   241664 kB
PageTables:       1044 kB
VmallocTotal:   532400 kB
VmallocUsed:      4828 kB
VmallocChunk:   527232 kB

Hosts & Roles

Host names and a quick description of their role:

Name    Role                    OS
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
vela    Workstation/Mobile      Debian-etch
pyxis   Linux Testing/Backup    FreeBSD-current
carina  Testing/Development     NetBSD-current

So there it is . . . for now . . .

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