Things are running smoothly but load is high with stock 5.15.0 kernel from Ubuntu.  I’ve configured the latest 5.15 kernel (5.15.71) and installed on a number of machines and it is also running well with no forced preemption, 100HZ clock, and fully tickless kernel.  This reduces overhead somewhat and so I am going to install on the physical servers tonight at 11PM which will require rebooting everything.  This will result in some downtime between 11PM-11:30PM, not more than about 10 minutes for any given service.

     I will be installing this kernel on most of the other machines during the week but I need to get it on the physical hosts tonight.

     This will affect all Eskimo North services, including private virtual servers, shell servers, shared web hosting packages such as virtual domains, personal and business web hosting packages, and e-mail.

     It will also affect our fediverse services https://friendica.eskimo.com/ (a fediverse social media site), https://hubzilla.eskimo.com/ (another fediverse social media site), https://nextcloud.eskimo.com/ (a federated cloud service), and https://yacy.eskimo.com/ (a federated non-censored search engine).