Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - Primary Server online

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | Airline Operations | Primary Server online

DVA043
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP

Joined on June 10 2001
Event Half Century Club
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Everett 1500 Club
Bi-Millennium Club
Four Million Mile Club

"Col. Panic"
Marietta, GA

2,347 legs, 9,466.0 hours
240 legs, 553.9 hours online
2,005 legs, 8,259.1 hours ACARS
75 legs, 196.3 hours event
2,383 legs, 9,600.9 hours total
91 legs dispatched, 66.4 hours

Posted onPost created on October 25 2003 15:15 ET by Luke Kolin

The main DVA server has been fixed and is back online (hence no more stripes in the Water Cooler). Hopefully the power supply will be a little less flaky this time (although to be fair the old one had been running for almost 5 years 24x7x365).

I have also decided to bite the bullet and overclock the CPU; the motherboard supports only 400Mhz or 533Mhz operation, and it's a 466Mhz CPU. I have been underclocking it for years, but since Digital always overengineered everything I'm trying a 66Mhz overclock to see what happens. It is a 33% boost in speed for the CPU, so I'll be happy if it works. If the site goes down again tonight, I guess not. smile

Cheers!

Luke

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

DVA1044
Senior Captain, B767-300

Joined on January 12 2003
Century Club

"Fly Delta Jets"
Roswell, NM USA

127 legs, 388.8 hours
62 legs, 199.3 hours online
2 legs, 5.2 hours event

Posted onPost created on October 25 2003 15:56 ET by Lloyd Arms

Just watch the temps.

Lloyd Arms (DVA1044)

DVA1271
Senior Captain, MD-11

Joined on June 27 2003
Double Century Club

Central America

234 legs, 910.2 hours

Posted onPost created on October 25 2003 16:11 ET by Rolando Alvarado-Scott

hey luke.. i dont know.. its just my opinion.. i dont know if everyone thinks like i do.. but i liked the blue lines in the water cooler.. you could read it a little better.. it isn't something neccesary but it looks good.. :o) so can we keep them? lol..

Rolando Alvarado-Scott (DVA1271)

Posted onPost created on October 25 2003 18:53 ET by Luke Kolin

Thanks for the heads up. Unfortunately this 21064 motherboard does not have environmental monitoring. We'll keep our fingers crossed.

If it dies I'll finally have to bite the bullet and get an x86 board for the web site - there's a P2B-D plus 2xP3-550 combo for $50 on ebay right now; that'd be a good upgrade. I like dualies! (But I love my Alpha more).

Cheers!

Luke

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on October 25 2003 19:37 ET by Luke Kolin

The stripes are the result of v6 of the server software we are running. The main server is a DEC Alpha 21064 RISC chip, running NT4 and 5.0.10 of the server software. The backup server is running win2k on a 300 Mhz PII (my own box until I discovered flightsim and its CPU-hogging talents) and is actually more advanced server software, but there is no RISC version.

I want to upgrade the server software, but that will involve a CPU/mobo/RAM upgrade that I am unsure if it can be pulled off right now.

Cheers!

Luke

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

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