Archive for the 'Linux' Category

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…

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.

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.

Kernel.org hacked ! // From: J.H. <[email protected]> Subject: [kernel.org users] [KORG] Master back-end break-in

Monday, September 12th, 2011

Kernel.org hacked ! // From: J.H. <[email protected]> Subject: [kernel.org users] [KORG] Master back-end break-in

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.

Linux router 10G in production / performance refernce [rus]

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

Linux router 10G in production / performance refernce [rus]

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

[RUS] Убей в себе государство – Прощай, FreeBSD | A Farewell to FreeBSD –Rambler mail migrates to Debian Linux

Sunday, July 17th, 2011

[RUS] Убей в себе государство – Прощай, FreeBSD | A Farewell to FreeBSD –Rambler mail migrates to Debian Linux

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:…

HAProxy – The Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer

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.