Image and Echelon will be taken offline at 1:00 AM EST (-0500 GMT) on January 1st, 2009 for a kernel upgrade to 2.6.28. Downtime duration is expected to last less than 5 minutes. The latest kernel, 2.6.28, introduces the ext3
Mandatory per-process resource limits
New resource limits have been introduced for processes invoked from the shell to prevent runaway processes. Limits are not comprehensive and thus not targeted at restricting usage, but rather avoiding runaway processes from capitalizing a system. These values are tentative
Apache 2.2.10 Upgrade, mod_fastcgi Tweaks
All servers have been upgraded to Apache 2.2.10 during routine maintenance. In addition to the Web server upgrade, mod_fastcgi, responsible for acting as the intermediary between FastCGI applications and the Web server, has been upgraded to the latest development release