Performance

http://postgresmen.ru/articles/view/83 Postgresmen - PostgreSQL 8.3: улучшение производительности в разы

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-scalability/index.html?S_TACT=105AGX01&S_CMP=LP number of benchmarks of linux networking on SMP servers, with some tuning suggestions.

http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/ interesting analysis about network performance

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/07/07/thoughts-on-mysql-replication/ some interesting comments on build-in mysql replication, read comments!!!

http://hypertable.org/ new project that tries to do open source “BigTable” implementation

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-scalability/ How to avoid problems with Linux networking scalability on high-performance systems

http://sqlblog.com/blogs/paul_nielsen/archive/2007/12/12/10-lessons-from-35k-tps.aspx notes (somewhat interesting) about big OLTP system based on SQLserver

http://www.kaltenbrunner.cc/blog/index.php?/archives/21-8.3-vs.-8.2-a-simple-benchmark.html pgbench postgresql benchmark on DL380G5 (2x 2.33Ghz Quard Core, 12GB RAM 6 SAS RAID10)

http://blog.fastmail.fm/2007/01/04/webimappop-frontend-proxies-changed-to-nginx/ interesting note about how ngnix got IMAP/POP proxy

http://forum.ixbt.com/topic.cgi?id=76:7017#l Russian: speed up options to samba config (TCP related)