@forykw - Temporary Witness 🔕 Disable + Status ⚙️ Update

forykw (64)in #witness-category • 6 years ago

Hi there,

It's been a while. Work has been a bitch to me and I have been quite ocupied with real life. Plus on top of that, there is summer time and 🍦 Ice Cream!

But there are News!

I have recently disabled my Witness to perform several disk upgrades and have some room for NAS tests in the way.

$ conductor disable
Do you want to continue? [y/N]: y
{'ref_block_num': 60905, 'operations': [['witness_update', {'props': {'maximum_block_size': 131072, 'sbd_interest_rate': 0, 'account_creation_fee': '0.200 STEEM'}, 'fee': '0.000 STEEM', 'owner': 'forykw', 'url': 'https://steemit.com/witness-category/@forykw/forykw-witness-docker-solution', 'block_signing_key': 'STM1111111111111111111111111111111114T1Anm'}]], 'ref_block_prefix': 1837545088, 'expiration': '2018-01-20T03:06:09', 'extensions': [], 'signatures': ['2061877a14a94bb657f60a678886893bbb61669bb90adb7e3d78c5d3f219c96663398ea1e636c1b1861722896e8a08211cf853c44f4aeb912f63f08b4a2883538a']}

Now I can safely perform all the reboots and also acelerate the rebuild process, by increasing the rebuild rate. During this process the IO on the RAID is quite hard, so, if you decide to run other stuff from it at the same time, it becomes very slow, even if you use a pair of SSDs for caching.

It will take time, and my ETA for witness reactivation will be something like the end of the next week (if all goes as planned). So stay tunned and watch for other witness news.

What upgrades I am doing now?

I am replacing my old 1TB disks I had for 2TB ones. And after that, will be increasing the RAID6 to 10 disks total. And because the testbed does not use a hotswappable hardware, I have to reboot the NAS everytime I need to bring a disk offline, otherwise I need to scan for RAID inconsistencies (and takes another 2 or 3 hours).

Looking for previous upgrades?

You can read about it on this post. Since then it has been running perfectly fine, and definitively helped the hard disk temperatures to go down a bit.

That's all for now.

Cheers!