Several of my domains, guyblade.com, the004show.com, and blade.io (and associated), will be down for the next few hours. I purchased more RAM for it two days ago and took them down in order to install the memory. In the course of doing so, I powered it off before it finished doing its raid writeback leaving both dirty filesystems and dirty parity (I thought it had hung irrecoverably). This should take a little while to recover, at which point operations should resume normally.

Since I built Freasha in the summer after my freshman year of college, I have only made two upgrades counting this one. The first was upgrading the original 40GB disk to a pair of 200GB disks in raid 1. This upgrade increased the machine's memory from the previous 256 MB to 2 GB. The upgrade was prompted by malloc failures when attempting to use git to version some large (100-200 MB) files.

I have always been a bit suprised at how well the machine ran even under heavy load with so little memory. I supose that a large portion of the success is attributable to the fact that I always ran it without an X server and that it ran on NetBSD which is designed to run well in low memory situations.

Regardless, I may need to go through a proper upgrade at some point. Freasha is still running on NetBSD 2 (current version is 5). It is using an ancient 1400+ Athlon Thunderbird. The machine is currently maxed on memory with this upgrade (only two ram slots and I can't find DDR 1 memory in chips bigger than 1GB). Since the machine doesn't have SATA, it will be difficult to replace a drive should one fail. Also, it has two network cards, one of which is a 10-baseT card (complete with BNC connector) which makes moving files to it unpleasant especially since most of my other machines have gigabit connections.

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