Subj : Upgrading server
To   : Angel Ripoll
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Nov 10 2022 11:07:13

  Re: Upgrading server
  By: Angel Ripoll to Digital Man on Thu Nov 10 2022 05:35 pm

 >     Hola Digital!
 >
 > 09 Nov 22 19:17, Ragnarok dijo a Digital Man:
 >
 >  Ra> El 8/11/22 a las 16:34, Digital Man escribi¢:
 >
 >  >> Update/status:
 >  >>
 >  >> - Bind/Dynamic-DNS service migrated successfully
 >  >>    *.synchro.net hostnames are resolving and dynamically updated
 >  >> - GitLab migrated successfully, still on v14.7.2 - new SSH key (sorry)!
 >  >>    Will upgrade to the latest (v15.x) soon
 >  >> - DokuWiki/PHP-FPM migrated successfully
 >  >>    Upgraded to latest PHP-FPM and DokuWiki
 >  >> - Synchronet migrated successfully
 >  >>    still resolving lingering broken symlinks and permissions
 >  >> - proFTPd migrated (ftp.synchro.net) successfully
 >  >> - SpamAssassin migrated successfully (new spam db)
 >  >> - CVS/cvsweb/viewcvs *not* migrated and probably not going to bother
 >  >>    (will need to continue to find and fix any links to cvsweb/viewcvs)
 >  >>
 >  >> Still yet to do: ZNC, Murmur, automated backups, more stuff I'm
 > forgetting
 >
 >  Ra> Great job! always.. thanks for your work!
 >
 >     +1
 >
 >     Thanks Rob

Hopefully you've noticed the wiki and gitlab web UI are snappier (the wiki was already pretty fast), but builds are *way* fater now:

BEFORE the upgrade:
System: cvs - Linux 4.19.0-16-amd64 x86_64

00:00 - src/sbbs3       make git_branch.h git_hash.h
00:02 -         tar --exclude=*output.txt --exclude=node1 --exclude=ctrl --exclude=docs --exclude=exec --exclude=install --exclude=text --exclude=web --exclude=webv4 --exclude=xtrn --exclude=src/crt --exclude=src/doors --exclude=src/odoors --exclude=src/sbbs2 --exclude=src/syncterm --exclude=src/ZuulTerm --exclude=3rdp/win32.release --exclude-vcs --exclude-vcs-ignores --dereference -czvf sbbs_src.tgz *
21:51 - src/sbbs3       cov-build --dir ../../cov-int make RELEASE=1 all
00:18 - src/sbbs3       make RELEASE=1 gtkutils
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22:11 - total

AFTER the upgrade:
System: git - Linux 5.19.0-1-amd64 x86_64

00:00 - src/sbbs3       make git_branch.h git_hash.h
00:01 -         tar --exclude=*output.txt --exclude=node1 --exclude=ctrl --exclude=docs --exclude=exec --exclude=install --exclude=text --exclude=web --exclude=webv4 --exclude=xtrn --exclude=src/crt --exclude=src/doors --exclude=src/odoors --exclude=src/sbbs2 --exclude=src/syncterm --exclude=src/ZuulTerm --exclude=3rdp/win32.release --exclude-vcs --exclude-vcs-ignores --dereference -czvf sbbs_src.tgz *
07:08 - src/sbbs3       cov-build --dir ../../cov-int make RELEASE=1 all
00:06 - src/sbbs3       make RELEASE=1 gtkutils
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07:15 - total

And that's a single-threaded build/analysis!

For gitlab-CI builds, the improvement for just the sbbs-linux build job went from 09:33 to 2:57. That was the slowest job (among many, which *are* parallelized), so you that's approximately the improvement you should see now when waiting for CI to complete (e.g. for a merge request).

So all the expense, work and hassle was worthwhile to me. :-)
-- 
                                            digital man (rob)

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