From jing at jing.rocks Wed Aug 19 05:09:16 2026 From: jing at jing.rocks (Luke Yasuda) Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:09:16 +0900 Subject: [cfarm-users] cfarm420..422,430..440: temporary shutdown In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <046e7f81f409b42ee616fb0d077ff7ad@jing.rocks> On 2026-06-29 14:07, Luke Yasuda wrote: > Hi all, > > There will be a temporary shutdown for cfarm420..422,430..440 from Jul > 6 (ish) to Aug 25 (ish). Please plan your testing and move your data > accordingly. cfarm423..429 will be online as usual, so you can move > data there temporarily. Inside the LAN pretty much everything is > 10Gbps. You are not supposed to store important data, but if you did > anyway, it's time for you to move them. > > A few reasons are behind this shutdown. During this time I'll be away > from home, abroad again, and I feel unsafe to leave these many servers > up. We had 3 (small~medium level) earthquakes and 2 typhoons in a row > in Tokyo last Friday, when I just realized the server rack is not > disaster proofed. The rack is at risk of tipping over in a large > earthquake (defined as level 5+). The work to make it earthquake > proofed is ongoing. On the other hand, I saw on the news that France is > hot as hell and I imagine Tokyo will be melting hot too once the rainy > season ends. I feel that this shutdown will be good for the hardware in > general so they last longer, and my home won't burn down, etc. during > my time away. > > cfarm433..440 (the Talos II board) are not stable either. Sometimes the > HBA overheats and the PCIe link resets itself under heavy I/O, causing > CPU lockups (once I thought it was CPU's fault). This never happened > before this summer. I'll have to find a way to cool down the HBA. > cfarm439,440 have their own problems too and I'm still working on it, > but maybe not so fast. > > Let's hope we all survive this summer and maybe come back better and > stronger. Update: I'm back home and I restarted cfarm420..422,430. cfarm431,432 (hurd) do not boot: they stuck at init starting inetutils-syslogd. Need more investigations. The ppc ones cfarm433..440 will be started soon too. Also I earthquake-proofed the server rack. Cheers, -- Luke Yasuda GPG Fingerprint: 4E09 8D19 00AA 3F72 1899 2614 09B3 316E 13A1 1EFC -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 228 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: