I am taking vps1.eskimo.net down for approximately 1/2 hour to image.
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Debian Maintenance
Taking Debian shell server down for about 45-60 minutes to image.
Please use one of the other debian based servers in the interim, such as ubuntu, mint, julinux, zorin, or mxlinux.
Centos8 Maintenance
Taking centos8 shell server down for approximately 1/2 hour for imaging.
Zorin Maintenance
I will be taking the Zorin shell server down for approximately 1/2 hour for imaging.
Centos-Stream and MxLinux Maintenance Completed
Maintenance on Centos-Stream and MxLinux is complete. These are back in service.
Manjaro Maintenance
Taking the Manjaro shell server down for 1/2 hour approximately for imaging.
MxLinux Maintenance
Taking the MxLinux shell server down for about 1/2 hour for maintenance.
CentosStream Maintenance
Going to be taking the CentosStream shell server down for about 1/2 hour to image it.
Kernel Upgrades Completed
Kernel upgrade for virtual private servers 1-8 and the host machine, “ice”, have been completed. All are now running 5.10.33. Hopefully stability will be better.
Kernel Upgrades on Ice and VPS’s only
We have been having some stability issues on the machine that serves private virtual servers vps1-vps8 since kernel 5.8 where there were some major changes that significantly improved load and responsiveness and hence the unwillingness to revert to 5.4. I have filed a bug report on various issues that have shown up in crash dumps with the kernel Bugzilla but so far they have not directly addressed them.
This morning, this server spontaneously rebooted, it did not print a crash dump, only a watchdog timer timeout. But since last Friday the kernel team has kicked out a new release that addresses an issue with memory allocation that under certain circumstances could cause already allocated memory to be re-allocated and they’ve made many fixes to KVM code which is the hypervisor we are using to serve private virtual servers so could be relevant.
I am going to do a kernel upgrade on just this server at 11PM tonight. This will cause a brief interruption of all virtual private servers lasting 5-10 minutes. Since no NFS/NIS mounts are involved, I do not expect it to take as long as normal updates do.