I got a new server ! A nice 170MHz Ultra 1, that should have replaced entirely the old server; it was beginning to get slow under the load. After almost 24 hours struggling with disk copies and strange stuff, the new one is in place, and the speed gain is very visible here on this blog and on Sylpheed-Claws’ bugzilla. Yay!

I had lots of problems with mysqld though, which kept throwing Illegal Instructions at me. I tried three different compiles of 3.23, and even 4.1. Still no success; so the old server got a use as a mysql server. It’s probably a bit slower than having mysql on the new one, but it was too much annoying for me to try and make mysql run on the new one.

Let’s hope nothing breaks!