# \[tor-project\] minutes from the sysadmins **URL:** https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-project-minutes-from-the-sysadmins/20950 **Category:** tor-project **Tags:** tails **Created:** [December 15, 2025, 8:23pm UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-project-minutes-from-the-sysadmins/20950 "2025-12-15T20:23:04Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![anarcat](https://forum.torproject.org/user_avatar/forum.torproject.org/anarcat/32/31_2.png) [@anarcat](https://forum.torproject.org/u/anarcat) #### Post date: [December 15, 2025, 8:23pm UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-project-minutes-from-the-sysadmins/20950/1 "2025-12-15T20:23:04Z")
Here's your last dose of sysadmin minutes for the year! # Roll call: who's there and emergencies all hands present # Express check-in How are you doing, and are there any blockers? Then pass the mic to the next person. # ADR approval Introduction to the three-document model, and last chance for objections. > **[review TPA-RFC policy in the face of criticism (#41428) · Issues · The Tor...](https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/41428)** > > https://jacobian.org/2023/dec/1/against-rfcs/ has excellent points against RFCs, we should review it and its followup, https://jacobian.org/2023/dec/5/how-to-decide/ The ADR process was adopted! # tails server replacement > **[Replace Tails machines with new ones (#18238) · Issues · The Tor Project / TPA...](https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/tails-sysadmin/-/issues/18238)** > > We recently had performance issues in Dragon ( Option 2 (2 servers rented at Hetzner with 108.60 USD setup, monthly cost: 303.52$/mth) was approved, do we go ahead with this? We shouldn't be working on this during the holidays, but having the servers available for emergencies might be good. We might be able to get an isoworker ready by the end of the week. Tails 7.4 is scheduled for January 15, that gives us about a week to prepare after the break. Speed tests performed showed: 16MB/s fsn -\> riseup, 6MB/s -\> riseup -\> fsn. Ultimately we need to migrate the orchestrator next to the workers to optimize this. New servers will have less disks. This move must be communicated to the Tails team today. # Next meeting Next year! # Metrics of the month \* host count: 98, LDAP 127 (!), Puppet 126 (!) \* number of Apache servers monitored: 33, hits per second: 665 \* number of self-hosted nameservers: 6, mail servers: 12 \* pending upgrades: 0, reboots: 0 \* average load: 1.03, memory available: 4.6 TB/7.2 TB, running processes: 185 \* disk free/total: 100.5 TB/224.6 TB \* bytes sent: 451.6 MB/s, received: 289.3 MB/s \* [GitLab tickets]: 253 tickets including...    \* open: 0    \* ~Roadmap::Icebox: 126    \* ~Roadmap::Future: 40    \* ~Needs Information: 2    \* ~Roadmap::Backlog: 55    \* ~Roadmap::Next: 15    \* ~Roadmap::Doing: 5    \* ~Needs Review: 10    \* (closed: 4329)    \* [~Technical Debt]: 11 open, 41 closed [Gitlab tickets]: [https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/boards](https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/boards) [~Technical Debt]: [Issues · TPA · GitLab](https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/tpa/-/issues/?state=opened&label_name%5B%5D=Technical%20Debt) > **···** > > -- > Antoine Beaupré > torproject.org system administration > \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ > tor-project mailing list -- tor-project@lists.torproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to tor-project-leave@lists.torproject.org