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Linux Tuning Tricks?
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I was reading the comments here and when I got to the end I read the little cookie/quote which is always at the bottom of the page. This one said: Dr. Livingston? Dr. Livingston I. Presume?
I had to read it several times before I realised that it was an italic "I." and not "/." (I can't get the font to set properly in here, so it doesn't look as much like a slash now)
"In an effort to provide the fairest and simplest possible allocation of available product among all of the retailers, including our own stores, we elected to perform our distributions in alphabetical order."
Now we know why they named themselves "Apple"... :)
They don't really go into it, but the real issue is what happens after the battle. The pellets are covered in heavy-metal dust from the initial impact which washes into the local water supply and the pellets themselves are often consumed by birds. (Many types of birds eat small pebbles to aid in digestion). Birds large enough to eat spen rounds are also large enough for people to eat. When the local population sits down for their Sunday brunch they are unknowingly consuming huge doses of heavy metal at the same time.
...to say "58,000 Megatons" vs "58 Gigatons".
I mean hey, a Gigaton is big, but a 1000 Megatons? Whoa, you're talking some serious tonnage there!
Personally I'd go for the max fear-factor and say 58,000,000 tons...
Raid over IDE performance is crap unless it's Raid-0 (striping) whereupon the more disks you can throw at it (up to the controller's physical limits) the faster it goes. You could have a screamin' swap partition setup on a separate Raid-0 (no mirroring 'cause it's swap only).
('Course swap is how many millions of times slower than RAM...?:)
And if you want that performance with redundancy then do Raid-0/1 with separate controllers for each 0-set (you want physical redundancy anyway) and your performance hit from mirroring actually won't be too bad.
Not to mention none of the users are gonna understand the reference anyway.
Far more logical to name as follows:
SRVR1 . . . SRVR4000
It is a simple matter then to hand out a quick-reference pamphlet to your users defining what each server is.
Be sure to order the reference by server name, rather than function or department, as this is how they will be listed in Network Neighborhood. Your users cannot be expected to understand the difference between a print server and a SQL server anyway - no need to confuse them any more than necessary.
(and if you really do this I want a copy of your next performance review! rofl...)
You can just copy an existing system. (I.e. keep a hard-drive around with your base config).
If you've never done this before, the disk-upgrade howto gives you all the info you need.
You can also have several configs TAR'd up all nice and neat and just pull down whatever you need with a 'nix boot disk (or have 'em on CD).
I live in Seattle and there is a small town called Everett just to the North of me. I drive around there from time to time on business and noticed one day all of a sudden that EVERY intersection on a main street (highway, actually) had sprouted a total of four cameras with an additional two at the midpoint between intersections. This pattern is repeated for several miles and covers every square inch of the street.
I asked around and couldn't get an answer from anybody about them except that there had been no voting process, which is unusual for a town that votes on everything. It's also a little odd that a small town could even afford to put up that much surveillance. I'm no conspiracy theorist but I have to wonder if it isn't a test project.
I dunno where you're mounting it, but you can convert to HUD (Heads Up Display) on the cheap with a mirror. Only problems are 1 - inverting the image, and 2 - need more depth for the display as it is now a prism shape rather than flat (display lies flat or on it's side edge facing w/mirror at 45 deg.)
Alternatively you could get a little open frame CRT from a surplus place like TimeLine (They usually have a wide selection of LCD stuff too if you want to keep experimenting with that).
When your legs are 20 feet long...
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T-Rex A Slow Mover
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...how fast do you really have to be? I can't stroll at 30mph!
"Wah! It's gonna catch us and eat us!"
"Don't be silly dear, that's just Dino out for his morning walk..."
Sounds like you have something else going on unrelated to RAID. Hardware RAID is completely transparent and shouldn't affect your defragging, (which, by the way, is still effective because the controller still accesses the drives in a consistent manner).
I would look at what's running on the system (virus?) or maybe the driver for the RAID card(s).
BTW DiskKeeper is pretty good...
Have you had problems with copy'n'paste in the Linux 6.0 beta? I love it too except for one tiny and incredibly annoying bug. I often have several websites open at once and copy text from one to another (e.g. webmail,/. posts etc.) and if you don't get the order exactly right what pastes is the URL! Even if I'm copying a URL from a page into the address field of the same page! (Have to delete the existing url text before copying and pasting.) Is this just some messed up library on my system perhaps? Sorry for the OT post... (And my undying gratitude to anybody who's run into this and knows how to fix it!
I have a good job. I like working here and my coworkers are great. But I'm a bit too far from the University to be able to take night classes and get my MBA. So I, too, am job-hunting.
With almost 15 years in the industry and a broad background (not to mention people skills and the ability to write in a semi-literate fashion) I have never had a problem finding a job before now.
The problem is that the positions often get filled before they're even advertised (I'm in Seattle, if you're curious).
There was a tiny little position at a non-profit which I was interested in and they got almost a hundred resume's before the position was even posted!! Bigger, "real" companies get 400-500!!
I've got my resume' at one of those resume re-writers right now (say that 5x quickly) just to try to stand out a little more...
If you're out of work, I feel for you - good luck!
A 1.8GHz processor running at 900MHz is going to let off as much heat as a processor in the same family rated at 900MHz...
Umm, yeah, right, you don't know much about CPU design these days do you?
Discounting the above, my own real world experience has been that Intel CPU's can typically eliminate the fan with a 20-30% underclock. AMD is almost not worth it needing at least 50% underclock. Also you NEED the biggest darn heatsink you can find and I strongly recommend active heat monitoring and some sort of automatic powersaving idle/shutdown/whatever if you leave the machine alone for long periods. Somebody mentioned large heat-sinks being close to the power-supply fan intake, this is a good idea and can be accomplished by using a duct (and possibly some judicious cutting) if your power supply vents are inconveniently situated.
Slashdot Mirror
Here's the link.
Geez, some people... :)
There's a link at the end pointing to an update with benchmarks, so I think they did more than just POST.
I was reading the comments here and when I got to the end I read the little cookie/quote which is always at the bottom of the page. This one said:
Dr. Livingston? Dr. Livingston I. Presume?
I had to read it several times before I realised that it was an italic "I." and not "/."
(I can't get the font to set properly in here, so it doesn't look as much like a slash now)
"In an effort to provide the fairest and simplest possible allocation of available product among all of the retailers, including our own stores, we elected to perform our distributions in alphabetical order."
Now we know why they named themselves "Apple"...
:)
They don't really go into it, but the real issue is what happens after the battle. The pellets are covered in heavy-metal dust from the initial impact which washes into the local water supply and the pellets themselves are often consumed by birds. (Many types of birds eat small pebbles to aid in digestion). Birds large enough to eat spen rounds are also large enough for people to eat. When the local population sits down for their Sunday brunch they are unknowingly consuming huge doses of heavy metal at the same time.
...to say "58,000 Megatons" vs "58 Gigatons".
I mean hey, a Gigaton is big, but a 1000 Megatons? Whoa, you're talking some serious tonnage there!
Personally I'd go for the max fear-factor and say 58,000,000 tons...
Also known as a zip gun
Rough?!?
Let's see you speed-load 144 rubber-bands!!!
Raid over IDE performance is crap unless it's Raid-0 (striping) whereupon the more disks you can throw at it (up to the controller's physical limits) the faster it goes. You could have a screamin' swap partition setup on a separate Raid-0 (no mirroring 'cause it's swap only). :)
('Course swap is how many millions of times slower than RAM...?
And if you want that performance with redundancy then do Raid-0/1 with separate controllers for each 0-set (you want physical redundancy anyway) and your performance hit from mirroring actually won't be too bad.
My $.031475
Not to mention none of the users are gonna understand the reference anyway.
Far more logical to name as follows:
SRVR1
.
.
.
SRVR4000
It is a simple matter then to hand out a quick-reference pamphlet to your users defining what each server is.
Be sure to order the reference by server name, rather than function or department, as this is how they will be listed in Network Neighborhood. Your users cannot be expected to understand the difference between a print server and a SQL server anyway - no need to confuse them any more than necessary.
(and if you really do this I want a copy of your next performance review! rofl...)
You can just copy an existing system. (I.e. keep a hard-drive around with your base config).
If you've never done this before, the disk-upgrade howto gives you all the info you need.
You can also have several configs TAR'd up all nice and neat and just pull down whatever you need with a 'nix boot disk (or have 'em on CD).
All together now!
"Ti-i-iny bubbles..."
(Or are we mostly too young to remember that song?)
Cato Kaelin to the rescue!
(My most profound apologies for such a horrible pun, the coffee made me do it).
...nursery rhyme to replace Hickory Dickory Dock:
Flappity floppity flip,
A mouse on a moebius strip,
The strip revolved,
The mouse dissolved,
In a chronodimensional skip!
:)
I live in Seattle and there is a small town called Everett just to the North of me. I drive around there from time to time on business and noticed one day all of a sudden that EVERY intersection on a main street (highway, actually) had sprouted a total of four cameras with an additional two at the midpoint between intersections. This pattern is repeated for several miles and covers every square inch of the street.
I asked around and couldn't get an answer from anybody about them except that there had been no voting process, which is unusual for a town that votes on everything. It's also a little odd that a small town could even afford to put up that much surveillance. I'm no conspiracy theorist but I have to wonder if it isn't a test project.
Um, yeah, but how many clients can a NT/2K server running VNC host? A: Exactly ONE!
(Note that the poster referred to Citrix).
I dunno where you're mounting it, but you can convert to HUD (Heads Up Display) on the cheap with a mirror. Only problems are 1 - inverting the image, and 2 - need more depth for the display as it is now a prism shape rather than flat (display lies flat or on it's side edge facing w/mirror at 45 deg.)
Alternatively you could get a little open frame CRT from a surplus place like TimeLine (They usually have a wide selection of LCD stuff too if you want to keep experimenting with that).
...how fast do you really have to be? I can't stroll at 30mph!
"Wah! It's gonna catch us and eat us!"
"Don't be silly dear, that's just Dino out for his morning walk..."
Sounds like you have something else going on unrelated to RAID. Hardware RAID is completely transparent and shouldn't affect your defragging, (which, by the way, is still effective because the controller still accesses the drives in a consistent manner).
I would look at what's running on the system (virus?) or maybe the driver for the RAID card(s).
BTW DiskKeeper is pretty good...
Have you had problems with copy'n'paste in the Linux 6.0 beta? I love it too except for one tiny and incredibly annoying bug. I often have several websites open at once and copy text from one to another (e.g. webmail, /. posts etc.) and if you don't get the order exactly right what pastes is the URL! Even if I'm copying a URL from a page into the address field of the same page! (Have to delete the existing url text before copying and pasting.) Is this just some messed up library on my system perhaps?
Sorry for the OT post... (And my undying gratitude to anybody who's run into this and knows how to fix it!
I have a good job. I like working here and my coworkers are great. But I'm a bit too far from the University to be able to take night classes and get my MBA. So I, too, am job-hunting.
With almost 15 years in the industry and a broad background (not to mention people skills and the ability to write in a semi-literate fashion) I have never had a problem finding a job before now.
The problem is that the positions often get filled before they're even advertised (I'm in Seattle, if you're curious).
There was a tiny little position at a non-profit which I was interested in and they got almost a hundred resume's before the position was even posted!! Bigger, "real" companies get 400-500!!
I've got my resume' at one of those resume re-writers right now (say that 5x quickly) just to try to stand out a little more...
If you're out of work, I feel for you - good luck!
Isn't all pupil data transferred wireless?
(Leastwise ain't nobody stickin' any wires in my pupils!)
A 1.8GHz processor running at 900MHz is going to let off as much heat as a processor in the same family rated at 900MHz...
Umm, yeah, right, you don't know much about CPU design these days do you?
Discounting the above, my own real world experience has been that Intel CPU's can typically eliminate the fan with a 20-30% underclock. AMD is almost not worth it needing at least 50% underclock. Also you NEED the biggest darn heatsink you can find and I strongly recommend active heat monitoring and some sort of automatic powersaving idle/shutdown/whatever if you leave the machine alone for long periods. Somebody mentioned large heat-sinks being close to the power-supply fan intake, this is a good idea and can be accomplished by using a duct (and possibly some judicious cutting) if your power supply vents are inconveniently situated.
Sounds more like a Grendel cluster! :)
...a month or so ago, where ya been?