Archive for September, 2011
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…
Posted in benchmark, comparison, Linux, networking, nginx, openssl, performance, Security, ssl, STUD, stunnel, sysadmin, tls | Comments Off | permalink
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!
Posted in atom, benchmark, D510, intel, opensource, openssl, performance, ssl, STUD | Comments Off | permalink
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.
Posted in bandwidth, htb, LARTC, Linux, network, networking, qos, queue, reference, shaping, tc | Comments Off | permalink
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
Posted in development, git, gitolite, hosting, infrastructure, KDE, projects | Comments Off | permalink
Sunday, September 25th, 2011
Also see http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-scm-interest&m=1276129572… Especially the attachment linked from that page.
Posted in development, git, gitolite, gitosis, infrastructure, KDE, reviewboard, sysadmin, tools | Comments Off | permalink
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…
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Saturday, September 24th, 2011
Posted in 10G, AES, AES-NI, benchmark, for:@twitter, has:for, has:shortcut, intel, network, openvpn, performance, Security, shortcut:openvpn, testing, vpn | Comments Off | permalink
Saturday, September 24th, 2011
Posted in aws, cluster, ec2, for:@twitter, has:for, java, jboss, JbossWorld, multicast, network, presentation, redhat | Comments Off | permalink
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
Posted in configuration, management, policy, site-config, sysadmin | Comments Off | permalink