Well, the time has finally come. I have had this server for about 3 years now and it has only been rebooted once for a kernel upgrade. I have just been told that the bread rack blacknode sits on has been slated for demolition to make way for cabinet expansion in its San Antonio DC. I really cannot complain about this as I only pay $5/m for a dedicated machine and some bandwidth.

I am still going to miss her when she goes and am going to work on getting her moved beneath my desk for nostalgia’s sake. Anyway, she is not much in terms of hardware, but she has been rock solid in terms of stability. The server hosts this blog, datacenteroutage.com and my svn repositories. It has been a good test bed for anything that does not require allot of memory or processing horse power.

Here is what she looks like:

blacknode ~ # cat /etc/gentoo-release
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.11.1

blacknode ~ # uname -a
Linux blacknode.net 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 #4 SMP Tue Nov 11 01:57:56 CST 2008 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2800+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

blacknode ~ # cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 10
model name : AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2800+
stepping : 0
cpu MHz : 1658.561
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow up ts
bogomips : 3320.27
clflush size : 32

blacknode ~ # cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 513280 kB
MemFree: 31688 kB
Buffers: 155724 kB
Cached: 91216 kB
SwapCached: 1488 kB
Active: 288128 kB
Inactive: 110332 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 513280 kB
LowFree: 31688 kB
SwapTotal: 995988 kB
SwapFree: 991280 kB
Dirty: 132 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 150868 kB
Mapped: 45676 kB
Slab: 76932 kB
SReclaimable: 67864 kB
SUnreclaim: 9068 kB
PageTables: 1824 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 1252628 kB
Committed_AS: 531644 kB
VmallocTotal: 507896 kB
VmallocUsed: 2668 kB
VmallocChunk: 505224 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
HugePages_Surp: 0
Hugepagesize: 4096 kB

blacknode ~ # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 80)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237/VX700 PCI Bridge
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 (rev 0c)
00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
00:11.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC’97 Modem Controller (rev 80)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]

blacknode ~ # uptime
16:21:52 up 247 days, 1:30, 1 user, load average: 0.24, 0.08, 0.03

Only one little hiccup:

MCE: The hardware reports a non fatal, correctable incident occurred on CPU 0.
Bank 2: 940040000000017a

I am going to be migrating to one of my other, more powerful environments in Dallas Texas. I am still a little sad.