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by 65a 14y ago
I'm getting +20k IOPs and nearly 1GB/sec read/write out of a mirror, something like 40K 1.5GB/sec out of a mirror+stripe on ZFS under FreeBSD. Disks are either 2x256GB SSD or 4x128GB SSD. Meanwhile BTRFS was so slow on random IO I had to to
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by 65a 14y ago
I've been running pkgng on CURRENT for a bit...It's really quite painless, even if you prefer compiling everything. The new pkg tool does some stuff easily that is painful even in debian (which in my opinion has always done packages right..
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by 65a 14y ago
To be pedantic, 7.2 or 8.0 were pretty damn bad. 7.3.5-7.5.5 were the best. I think there were some dogs around system 5, but I'd have to get my 128k out of the dump to be sure.
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by 65a 14y ago
The 4400 was one of the first CHRP-type boxes. They used a Motorola made motherboard and usually had board headers for parallel and PS/2. The same board (or at least a variant) was used in Motorola StarMax machines, which were quite powerfu
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by 65a 14y ago
Here's one it took me a while to figure out... Hung SSH session (such as wifi out of range)? Type Return-Tilde-Period
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by 65a 14y ago
Ubuntu is not really a go-to system for advanced users...
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by 65a 14y ago
Here's a forum doing write tests on a variety of mlc and slc drives...ongoing: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?271063-SS... Also, most MLC has between 10k and 1k writes, not 100k. TLC is even worse!
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by 65a 14y ago
Debugging is often best accomplished as a binary tree search aimed by familiarity/experience. Once you can put bounds on the search, it becomes possible to get the answer in just a few questions. Totally agree.
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by 65a 14y ago
Although the person used the colloquialism "No worries", there are distinct elements of non-native speaking. The sentences using the word may are particularly stilted, and the grammar is quite awkward at times. I wonder if the goal here was