November 6th, 2006
Xen upgrades
We’ll be starting Xen upgrades in the next few days. You’ll be receiving an email with the date and time we plan to upgrade your server. Ideally, the downtime will be one reboot, as we shutdown and restart the box. If there’s a problem, we’ll roll back. Most importantly, if you compiled anything with our kernel, please get in touch with us, since the kernel will be upgraded in this maintenance. Check the forum discussion thread – as always, we’re open to questions and comments.
We think everyone will be quite pleased with this update, it addresses performance and scheduling on SMP machines. See this post for a benchmark comparing Slices on previous Xen versions.
March 17th, 2008 at 10:00 PM Jon Leighton
Will the backup service come back with this update? What’s the status on that?
March 17th, 2008 at 10:00 PM matt
Jon – we hope, but can’t be sure at this point. The update does “touch” some of the problem code w/ the backup service, but we really can’t tell until we can simulate the same conditions, since it happened rather infrequently. We’ll keep everyone posted.