Archive for the 'Linux' Category

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

Friday, May 6th, 2011

OTN Discussion Forums : SQL*Plus 10.2.0.1.0 does not work on … | times(NULL) = loop

Friday, May 6th, 2011

It appears to be an interesting bug in some versions of Oracle 10g, on Linux 2.6.x oracle process goes in loop doing times() system call if machine uptime < 199 days. Nice!!! / Oracle refs are bug 4612267 and 5867987 ) . The solution is to reboot.

Sören Bleikertz – On Amazon EC2′s Underlying Architecture

Friday, April 29th, 2011

Some description of EC2 Internals. EC2s are XEN VMs, mine is currently using Xen 3.0.3-rc5-8.1.14.f , which appears to be
F14 Xen package re-build on RHEl5.x (this is by looking at compiler version) . Some info in the article appears to a bit o…

MySQL Benchmarks – MySQL 5.0.92 vs 5.1.55 vs 5.5.10 vs Percona 5.1.55 vs Percona 5.5.8 vs MariaDB 5.2.5 | vbtechsupport.com

Saturday, April 23rd, 2011

Sysbench-based benchmark comparing OLTP workloads for different builds and forks of MySQL on 64-core intel machine (Quad Intel Xeon L7555 ) . Only one definitive result is that MySQL cannot scale beyond 8 or 16 cores, or in some cases beyond just 2 cor…

A Tale of Four Kernels

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011

Quote from the article: “Therefore,
the most we can read from the overall balance of marks is
that open source development approaches do not produce
software of markedly higher quality than proprietary software
development.”

A subjective code quality …

Configuring IPv6 on Redhat (CentOS) Linux — The IPv6 Experts .net

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

standard redhat-way (i.e. network-scripts) to configure IPv6 networking on RHEL/CentOS systems

[note about ipv6 stateful firewall in linux] ] ‘Re: ip6tables icmp conntracking on 2.6.18 vs 2.6.24′ – MARC

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

explanation on why `-m state –state ‘ does not work for IPv6 in older kernels

XenDomUSupport – Xen Wiki

Saturday, March 26th, 2011

Guest Operating system support chat for XEN

PacketShader – GPU-accelerated Software Router

Friday, March 25th, 2011

Also see http://shader.kaist.edu/packetshader/io_engine/index.html and http://www.ndsl.kaist.edu/~kyoungsoo/papers/2010-lanman-100Gbps.pdf

Using latest x86 hardware and GPU to build a 100GB pc router / possible theoretically, but as of now, is not co…

Diving into the Linux Networking Stack, Part I | Beyond Syntax | Michael J. Schultz

Friday, March 18th, 2011

Overview of how network driver work in linux kernel