RackTables
Friday, August 21st, 2009“Racktables is a nifty and robust solution for datacenter and server room asset management. It helps document hardware assets, network addresses, space in racks, networks configuration and much much more!”
Archive for the 'sysadmin' Category
Knowledge Base – How to install VMXNET network adapter and driver for VM’s in ESX Server
Friday, July 10th, 2009by default vmware installs “pcnet32″ network card which is a software emulation of 100MB card; most ppl switch
Experiences using nginx to front-end apache
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009some notes about keep-alive proxy setup for apache
[nginx forum post] Centralized logging for multiple servers
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009post on nginx forum that provides some insights about central logging / log collections
TCP Tuning Guide [Office of Science, DOE, US GOV]
Friday, May 15th, 2009Excellent site provides both theoretical background and practical recommendation for the situation when you need to push limits of TCP links using regular OS and commodity hardware. Especially useful if you need to do it via long-haul fast TCP link,…
TigerVNC
Thursday, May 14th, 2009likely to be a replacement for tightvnc (better performance )
Introducing NetBSD 5.0
Friday, May 8th, 2009BSD 5.0 release presentation, includes benchmarks: F10 vs FreeBSD 7.x vs NetBSD 4.0 and 5.0 (also see http://lwn.net/Articles/330909/ )
Bug 484667 – Dropping packets in bnx2 since 1.7.9 bnx2 version
Sunday, April 26th, 2009issue with dropped packets on newer broadcomm ethernet cards, found in dell 1950III servers
Best hardware for maximum throughput and PPS performance | Quagga | Users
Saturday, April 25th, 2009email threads that provides some pieces of info about linux routing performance (from 2008 )
Linux Software Router : Data Plane Optimization and Performance …
Saturday, April 25th, 2009in-depth linux routing performance evaluation, including code profiling, execution path analysis, etc