Archive for the 'Linux' Category
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
Benchmark comparing SPICE with RDP. In short, network utilization is similar, SPICE works for with video, but requires ~ 8Mbps of bandwidth. (SPICE work only for VMs)
Posted in benchmark, for:collidr, Linux, network, performance, RDP, remote_desktop, rhel, RHEV, VDI, video, virtualization, windows | Comments Off | permalink
Friday, November 12th, 2010
sendmal “smrsh” (aka sendmail restricted shell) — how to do do “pipe to a script” alias.
Posted in alias, Linux, mail, pipe, Postmaster, sendmail, smrsh, sysadmin | Comments Off | permalink
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
Fedora glibc guys broke a flash player for Linus , with, (tada!) a “optimization” of memcpy().
Posted in bugs, F14, Fedora, flash, glibc, Linux, premature_optimization, torvalds | Comments Off | permalink
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
Article about SSL termination with NGINX. In sort: 2 x 4 core AMD 2.5GHz == 25000 SSL TPS
Posted in acceleration, Linux, loadbalancing, nginx, proxy, Security, ssl, web | Comments Off | permalink
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
Notes from google ppl about their optimizations for SSL connections.
Posted in cryptography, google, http, https, Linux, openssl, performance, scalability, Security, ssl | Comments Off | permalink
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
“This paper compares the performance of an Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) based
Posted in benchmark, database, dba, Linux, Microsoft, performance, postgresql, redhat, sqlserver | Comments Off | permalink
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
[some notes on] How to use clamav built-in JIT byte-code interpreter to create new viri signature definitions.
Posted in clamav, infosec, jit, Linux, llvm, virus | Comments Off | permalink
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
this is funny (web page that shows to folks that are new to linux where [i.e. disk cache] the ram goes )
Posted in cache, funny, humor, Linux, memory, ram, sysadmin | Comments Off | permalink
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
PDF slides that show what happens if you create a file system with one billion (10**9 ) files
Posted in btrfs, ext3, ext4, filesystems, kernel, Linux, performance, presentation, scalability, storage, xfs | Comments Off | permalink
Monday, August 9th, 2010
software for automatic layout analysis and optical text recognition (GTK-based, possibly cross-platform)
Posted in gnome, gui, image, Linux, ocr, opensource, scanner, software, tesseract | Comments Off | permalink