Archive for the 'Linux' Category
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
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
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
Monday, September 12th, 2011
Kernel.org machines were hacked into, possibly via stolen credentials. Investigation is underway.
Thanks to GIT crypt-signing each commit, there is no danger to linux kernel code.
Posted in hacking, kernel, kernel.org, Linux, Security | Comments Off | permalink
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
Posted in 10G, for:collidr, intel, Linux, network, performance, router | Comments Off | permalink
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
russian ISP/network operators community forum: a post with live stats from a system system that routes ~ 10G/1.9Mpps of live traffic on Intel X520-2 82559EB card, 2 x Xeon E5620
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Sunday, July 17th, 2011
Posted in flames, for:collidr, freebsd, Linux, rambler.ru | Comments Off | permalink
Sunday, July 17th, 2011
Mail services from Rambler.ru ( rambler.ru: #179 from alexa top 500, #11 in Russia) migrates from FreeBSD to Linux (Debian) :
“Regretfully, we cannot keep production on FreeBSD any longer. There are several reasons to it, but the primary are:…
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Friday, May 6th, 2011
HA Proxy [synthetic] benchmarks on 10Gbit traffic. Linux network stack is the bottle neck here, not HAProxy, i.e. you can 10G line rate on big frames and few connections.
Posted in 10G, benchmark, haproxy, hardware, http, Linux, loadbalancing, performance, proxy, scalability, sysadmin | Comments Off | permalink