Archive for the 'system' Category

RHEL 6 Beta [index of ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/rhel/beta/6/]

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

just released on Aprl 21, 2010. Download and Try

[ENG ]Xen vs. KVM security architecture comparison [from forum.opennet.ru - "Qubes - новая безопасная операционная система на базе Linux ..."]

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Notes (exert) from Joanna Rutkowska recent paper comparing KVN and XEN architectures from security and design standpoint

Red Hat Knowledgebase: How can I make Network interface names persistent accross reboots in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5?

Monday, March 15th, 2010

writing udev rules for ethernet inteffaces

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)

Mark’s [Russinovich] Blog : The Machine SID Duplication Myth

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

about windows SID issues and machine cloning: explains what windows SID is, who it is used, and why you should or shouldn’t change it when you image-clone a windows machine

High Scalability – High Scalability – Facebook’s Memcached Multiget Hole: More machines != More Capacity 

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

also see http://dormando.livejournal.com/521163.html Describing some problems with performance/scalability you may have if you partition/shard your data by hash. ( that’s what memcached does.) You may hit the cpu bound limit from the amount of requ…

www.sdsqlug.org/presentations/May2009/MySpace_DB_Overview.pptx

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

myspace architecture presentation, talks about how to myspace solves its database issues

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.

Joshua Zhu’s Blog » C10K [how to write C10K server]

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

notes about high-performance unix server programming, things like concurrency models, IO types, memory allocation strategies, etc.

Win32::Daemon – Extension enabling Win32 Perl scripts to be a service – search.cpan.org

Friday, August 21st, 2009

perl module to run perl as Win32 service