Archive for September, 2011

SSL termination: stunnel, nginx & stud | Vincent Bernat

Sunday, September 25th, 2011

Interesting test results comparing and analyzing SSL performance. Using right combination of software and proper tunning, you can get up to 14000 TPS (re-shake every 80 requests) on HP DL 380 G7, with two Xeon L5630 (running at 2.13GHz for a total of…

Benchmarking SSL performance | Exceliance – Aloha Load Balancer

Sunday, September 25th, 2011

SSL perfomance benchmark on Atom D510 ( dual core 1.6 GHz ). (STUD/OpenSSL 0.9.8) . With re-negotiation every 100 requests and object size = 4K, 2300 SSL Req/Sec on Intel Atom!

HTB manual – user guide

Sunday, September 25th, 2011

Read this if you need to deal with traffic shaping on linux. Most of linux-based firewall appliances use HTB, this helps in understanding of what is going on behind the scenes.

‘[Kde-scm-interest] KDE Git hosting status update’ – MARC

Sunday, September 25th, 2011

“[KDE's] Sysadmin team has performed
a series of test installations and evaluations of software stacks
and compiled a report detailling the solution we decided we should
run with.” see http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-scm-interest&m=127612957219466&q=p3

Hacker News | Notes from KDE project admins about changes in the projec’s infrastructure

Sunday, September 25th, 2011

Also see http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-scm-interest&m=1276129572… Especially the attachment linked from that page.

O-bama Traffic -> Night in Malibu

Sunday, September 25th, 2011

In anticipation of  Obama-traffic on Monday,  I’ve opted to  stay in a hotel near my work, in Malibu, Ca.  Our president have decided to host a fund-raising event on Monday at House Of Blues on Sunset Blvd,  which is abou…

Gigabit_Networks_Linux – OpenVPN Community

Saturday, September 24th, 2011

Jboss Cluster in the Cloud | JBossWorld, Redhat Presentation [ban_w_310_running_in_the_cloud.pdf ]

Saturday, September 24th, 2011

Wikipedia site configuration files repository [ - operations/puppet.git/tree - files/ ]

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

All sysadmins: take a note: Wikipedia opened access to it’s site configuration management: a git repository with config files for various system software

Wikipedia site configuration files repository [ - operations/puppet.git/tree - files/ ]

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011