anonymous coward's questions

I purchased a second hand IBM eServer x345 with ServeRAID 8i and 3x 36GB SCSI hard drives.

I'm having difficulty setting up an operating system as the drives don't appear in either Arch or Ubuntu Server (even after select the ips drivers)

The individual disks show up in the server's onboard diagnostics software, but no logical volumes show up either there or in the BIOS.

Is there anything special I'll need to do to set these drives up with ServeRAID? Preferably I'd like just a JBOD configuration, but I'm happy with anything if I can just get this thing running.

Thanks

I've setup a Varnish cache mirror to sit in front of a file server, but it seems to be endlessly re-downloading data from my file server.

There's about 100GB of data in total, but so far Varnish has downloaded 800GB from my file server.

I'm using the default VCL file that comes with Varnish and the response headers for files served by the file server are similar to the following:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: max-age=290304000, public
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Expires: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:38:33 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0
E-Tag: "8b4723296ab697530768f18b1378b269"
Content-Disposition: inline; filename=image046.jpg;
X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 05:38:33 GMT
Content-Length: 100592

I'm starting varnishd with the following options:

varnish/sbin/varnishd -a 0.0.0.0:80 -f varnish/etc/varnish/default.vcl -s file,varnish/var/lib/varnish/varnish_storage.bin,100G

I deployed an ASP.NET web application last night and I when I woke up this morning it was very slow and would occasionally just throw a 'Service Unavailable' error.

I checked the Event Viewer and it was filled up with these errors:

I'm puzzled as it was working perfectly when I deployed it (MonoTorrent is required to retrieve the number of seeders/leechers for a certain torrent off the tracker - this was working fine), but it's no longer working and whenever code that uses MonoTorrent gets involved, the worker process just crashes.

MonoTorrent.dll is in the /bin/ directory.

I am running VisualSVN Server on my server, and I have TortoiseSVN installed on both my dev PC and my server.

I want to be able to push through updates to the website over SVN without manually checking out the latest version on htdocs.

How can I have TortoiseSVN on my server automatically checkout the latest revision of the site when I commit a new revision?