Archive for the 'Linux' Category

Interview: Red Hat on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization | MontanaLinux.org

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Some info about redhat new product RHEV (RedHat Enterprise Virtualization), which is based on SolidICE (KVM-based) product from Qumranet, which has been recently acquired by RedHat.

LXR / The Linux Cross Reference

Friday, November 20th, 2009

linux kernel code cross-reference: you can quickly look up a piece of code,, find out in what version it appeared first, and so on.

Receive packet steering [LWN.net]

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

notes from LWN about RPS patch — a way to distribute incoming traffic coming from 1 source (1 NIC, 1 queue, 1 IRQ line) via multiple CPU by hashing tcp headers and distributing by hash across multiple CPU/Cores

STONITH Deathmatch Explained (and Some Hints for Resource Agent Authors and Systems Engineers)

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

page explains classic “deadlock” case for HA cluster.

Re: [Xen-devel] Red Hat dropped XEN – Xen Source [post about XEN versioning in RHEL 5]

Monday, November 9th, 2009

note from redhat engineer explaining what version of xen is used in RHEL 5.x (this is not that simple, hence this post)

[OOM Killer Saga] Re: [PATCH] oom_pardon, aka don’t kill my xlock [LWN.net]

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

whenever your are in discussion about OOM, make sure you mention this :-)

Nehalem Routing Pefromance Test Results, 2009 Netdev conf, Vayatta.

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

test results for linux routing performance on recent intel “nehalem” CPUs and 10G ethernet

PWN Your Infrastructure

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

notes about [web] infrastructure monitoring from well-known game company (call of duty, gitar hero).

Graphing Linux Disk I/O statistics with Munin – Michael Renner’s macro-blog

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

tells you about a plugin (a perl script ) for munin that will collect linux disk IO stats and send it to munin for pretty graphs.

OpenSSH Public Key Authentication

Friday, October 9th, 2009

notes on setting up SSH pubic key auth