Software updates

[Aaron Turner <aturner@linuxkb.org>]

VA has finally released (actually a few weeks ago) a more recent kernel
which has a lot of performance improvements for SMP/Apache boxes.
Anyways, this is a very much needed upgrade for Yukon if we'd like decent
http performance out of Yukon.

Anyways, on the same note, anyone have an opinion on Vodka (single
PII-450)?  Anyone know if MySQL will take advantage of a 2.2.x based
kernel on a single CPU system?  VA included the lastest RAID patches with
2.2.12 (yes I know 2.2.13 is out, but I haven't seen a reason to try to
use the VA patches on a 2.2.13 kernel).

Anyways, I'll be planning the kernel upgrade on Yukon and possibly Vodka.
I'll give plenty of warning via email before I switch over- probably next
weekend.  If anyone has any special needs/thoughts/concerns, now is the
time to voice them.

Jason- what's the plan on upgrading phpMyAdmin & MySQL to the latest
versions?  We're two rev's back on MySQL and one on phpMyAdmin.  And while
I'm at it, why are there so many mysqld's running around?  52 last I
checked!  At 4.7MB each (-1MB shared), that's 192.4MB, or 76% of the RAM
on Vodka.  Basically, DB performance is going to really suck if we don't
fix this.  If we can't/shouldn't limit the number of mysqld's spawning, we
should probably move all the different Apache instances to Yukon (admin,
dev, devel, tst) to make more RAM available for caching.

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