Today was the first day of PGCon 2007. I sat in on the Performance tuturial. The room was overflowing, so we moved to a larger room. 58 people for a tutorial is pretty impressive. The connection to FreshPorts? I came up with an idea for solving the problem. Tonight […]

The much-anticipated X.org 7.2 commit has occurred. Unfortunately, the commit is causing a deadlock on FreshPorts. The error message I see is:

[36978]: [1-1] 2007-05-20 00:01:55.591 EDT freshports.org 36978 ERROR: deadlock detected
[1-2] 2007-05-20 00:01:55.591 EDT freshports.org 36978 DETAIL: Process 36978 waits for ShareLock on transaction 15047015; blocked by
[1-3] process 37015.
[1-4] Process […]

My work (yes, I’m now employed) is looking at deploying servers to client sites. They aren’t so much servers as appliances. The boxes serve a distinct function, and not much else.
Our hardware needs:

between 2TB and 8TB of storage in a RAID configuration
1U or 2U case
good reputation

Our hardware support needs:

reliable 24/7 support that we […]