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ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/rhel/beta/6/ just released on Aprl 21, 2010. Download and Try

http://www.opennet.ru/openforum/vsluhforumID3/65661.html#23 Notes (exert) from Joanna Rutkowska recent paper comparing KVN and XEN architectures from security and design standpoint

http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-17338 writing udev rules for ethernet inteffaces

http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-03/msg00530.html note from redhat engineer explaining what version of xen is used in RHEL 5.x (this is not that simple, hence this post)

http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2009/11/03/3291024.aspx 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

http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/10/26/facebooks-memcached-multiget-hole-more-machines-more-capacit.html 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 requests that few very popular keys receive. Currently, there is now common way around this (perhaps because very very few sites scale to the point when this becomes an issue )

http://www.sdsqlug.org/presentations/May2009/MySpace_DB_Overview.pptx myspace architecture presentation, talks about how to myspace solves its database issues

http://blogs.amd.co.at/robe/2008/12/graphing-linux-disk-io-statistics-with-munin.html 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.

http://blog.zhuzhaoyuan.com/category/c10k/ notes about high-performance unix server programming, things like concurrency models, IO types, memory allocation strategies, etc.

http://search.cpan.org/~daveroth/Win32-Scheduler_v20000702/lib/Win32/Scheduler.PM#Example:_Install_the_service perl module to run perl as Win32 service