January 2007

Speaking at the 2007 MySQL Conference

January 30, 2007

Looks like I’ll be talking about capacity planning. See you there!

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Two tools that I would love more than anything

January 26, 2007

I don’t think that these have been built yet by anyone, but I want these: 1. Swap Inspection Tool – a utility that can simply peer into swap space and tell me whatever it can about what is using it. PIDs, process names, anything. I know it’s just a snapshot, and it could all change [...]

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TCP splicing

January 25, 2007

This looks promising and potentially wickedly awesome: http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/software/tcpsp/ Has anyone played with this yet in a production environment ?

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5 Little Known Things

January 18, 2007

Ok, Geva Perry tagged me so here goes: 1. After graduating from Umass/Amherst with a Mechanical Engineering degree, I worked at the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, doing side-impact crashworthiness research for the NHTSA. We ran transient dynamic finite-element analysis simulations using LS-DYNA and rigid-body simulations with MADYMO3D. This is where I learned UNIX, because [...]

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