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Some thoughts about ZFS
Been reading a lot of blogs about ZFS . It’s mind blowing. Take a look at the screencasts done by Dan Price . Sun currently uses the tag line “ZFS: The last word in filesystems”. From what I read and...
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Getting into the deals
One of my favourite bloggers Jonathan Schwartz mentions in a recent Eweek interview that he is worried about getting into deals. Well, I can think of one class of deals which Jonathan can easily win...
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Enabling cheaper SSL hosting
Today the cost of SSL enabled websites increases due to cost of doing SSL computations The requirement of one IP per hostname hosting SSL With increasing CPU performance (particularly the AMD Opteron)...
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Sun Niagara as an awesome HTTPS offload proxy
Sun has recently released it’s new UltraSparc T1 based systems (aka “Niagara”) boxes. These boxes are basically single CPU boxes but the CPU have 8 cores with each core having 4 hardware threads on...
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engine(3) support for flood
hacked a patch up to provide engine(3) support for flood. Patch compiles on my AMD64 box, now I just need to scrounge for a Niagara so I can see if it takes advantage of the insane RSA performance to...
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Niagara does a Chuck Norris on Itanium/Xeon
Colm “Punish thy Server” MacCárthaigh has published his awesome benchmarks with the Sun T2000. Colm is also looking at ssl-offload benchmarks for the T2000. I hope my engine(3) patch for flood gets to...
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Postmark is not a mail server benchmark
I came across Peerapong Kunasirirat’s blog today and also read the same information via the official Sun’s PR blog ‘On the Record’. Both blogs were discussing how ZFS is great for a mail server...
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