Entries written in October 2009

Written October 14, 2009 in linux, mysql, php, sysadmin

In the last issue of my current consulting saga, Detecting and Resolving LAMP Stack Performance Problems, we talked about a Drupal site that was being brought offline every few hours due to poor tuning of the LAMP stack. With the default settings, a site isn’t going to take much …

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Written October 13, 2009 in linux, mysql, php, sysadmin

As a sysadmin, we sometimes run into performance problems with multiple angles and portions. It’s sometimes not particularly obvious where the actual performance problem is, and resolving one problem that you can see might bring another couple of problems to the surface.

The below comes from a consulting gig that …

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Written October 13, 2009 in sysadmin

At the Sun OpenWorld conferene keynote today, there were a few new products listed in the Flash storage arena — most notably the F5100 that everyone’s jibber-jabbering about.

As a smaller customer, I’m far more interested in the SunFlash F20 PCIe card — which I don’t see …

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