Sad Sad days..

Sun to be bought by IBM for $7 billion. SGI bought by Rackable for $25 million.
The SGI purchase I can understand as Rackable wants to be a one stop shop for their customers.  SGI has been on a downward spiral for years.   Who needs to buy a super expensive custom OS/Hardware to do graphics [...]

Posted on April 3, 2009 at 2:27 pm by iguy · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Shouting affects performance

Sometimes the strangest things can have an affect on performance of your computer.   Using the Fishworks tool which uses Dtrace for monitoring Sun Storage ZFS systems performance of your disk is affected by shouting.

“You can’t control what you can’t measure.”

Posted on January 7, 2009 at 6:52 pm by iguy · Permalink · Leave a comment
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