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by kev009 10y ago
I haven't used them, but it looks compelling: https://www.packet.net/
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by kev009 10y ago
But why? We are fairly confident we can make BSD pump several hundred Gbps doing real world long haul TCP for content serving in the next couple years on something like Naples or POWER9. At the other end, Isilon converted from Infiniband to
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by kev009 10y ago
One other point, these cloud companies like Amazon and Google do a great deal of self congratulations for some pretty embarrassing architectures. Necessitating million server datacenters is as WTF to me as being proud of millions of lines
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by kev009 10y ago
This has been ongoing debate since the beginning. RDMA means running a large amount of protocol in silicon and firmware. Can you imagine what might go wrong? In the FreeBSD community it is somewhat common knowledge that Chelsio is the bes
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by kev009 10y ago
Touche
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by kev009 10y ago
That is completely orthogonal. Journalism includes developing and editing articles to meet expected standards, and you can evaluate that independent of agreeing or disagreeing with the message. Being factually incorrect in the case of the
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by kev009 10y ago
I agree with the pretext behind the article of inexperienced, reckless CEOs creating toxic culture but it is incredibly poor journalism and I'm laughing that this made it past NYT editorial board. What came to mind is the scene from I
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by kev009 10y ago
BSD kernel
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by kev009 10y ago
There's quite a bit of money, a license for a small design shop will easily span from mid six figures to millions. There is rampant theft though, see the recent http://norcalrecord.com/stories/511081584-synopsis-c
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by kev009 10y ago
The industry is basically derelict which may be surprising to a lot of people. The design and layout software hasn't changed much in decades. Analog/RF mixed signal circuit design in particular is arcane, manual magic even thoug
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by kev009 10y ago
That is expressing a ratio. A more concrete example, .46 a person doesn't exist even if that ratio is useful for expressing statistics.
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by kev009 10y ago
https://github.com/kdave/xfstests is the old standard. Folks have also been using AFL to fuzz. In ZFS, zdb is often used for similar purposes.
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by kev009 10y ago
I think ZFS is the only viable open source CoW total storage management option commercially. These new Linux filesystems are way too late to the party, and it will take a decade for them to reach maturity when they reach basic 1.0 feature
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by kev009 10y ago
I'm curious what people think of diet-hackers.. this forum is probably more sympathetic than most. It seems like there's a bi-modal distribution where either you don't care about diet, or you ascribe metaphysical properties t
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by kev009 10y ago
I can't help but draw tons of similarities to technology/software and especially the armies of "DevOps" that "smart" companies now seem happy to employ to keep a rickety pile of cascading ill-understanding be s
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by kev009 10y ago
Ignorance on the blocksize arg. Also, I only need to remember one progress command for my entire operating system: control+t. I also get a kernel wait channel from that which is phenomenally pertinent to rapidly understanding and diagnosi
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by kev009 10y ago
As someone in the CDN industry, that was a smart aquihire.
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by kev009 10y ago
People grossly under-intuit the channel error rate of the SATA. At datacenter scale it's alarmingly high http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/imagesvr_ce/8069/sas-s...
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by kev009 10y ago
I have insider knowledge of most large FreeBSD shops and I have to be careful to not overshare so I will use my current employer, which has publicly disclosed 10^4 machine count in shareholder earnings reports and technical talks. Using th
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by kev009 10y ago
WhatsApp is completely absent from FreeBSD development. The donations from Jan Koum have been from his personal finances. In kind, it's a shame FB/WhatsApp don't do development. And while the FreeBSD Foundation provides gov
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by kev009 10y ago
Netflix has done phenomenal vendor management here. Intel is a big ship with slow feeeback loops but they were able to connect the dots and hopefully we will see Intel working in earnest to support the long standing and rapidly growing seg
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by kev009 10y ago
MS is a big supporter of FreeBSD and has done some high quality work in supporting HyperV/Azure. ARM and users like Cavium are also supporters and have done a lot of enablement work.
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by kev009 10y ago
This looks pretty silly, a Lenovo P51 beats the specs aside from GPU but supports ECC RAM for half the cost.
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by kev009 10y ago
Sort of. It ebbs and flows, generally more maintainable to do more in CPU/kernel and less in HW/firmware for PCs and of course price runs the market so there's a race to do less. Part of the mainframe price tag is getting l
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by kev009 10y ago
OpenBSD is the closest successor to classic UNIX.
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by kev009 10y ago
It's two orders of magnitude less code, but I would be hesitant to say it's more than a linear decrease in vulnerability. Rust (or OCaml in the past) seem like a match made in heaven for solving Heartbleed and Cloudbleed type of
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by kev009 10y ago
It's funny to see a downvote brigade on anything calling into question Linux's supremacy. The overwhelmingly devops HN crowd is probably the worst group to poll on systems software advancement.
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by kev009 10y ago
And by the same coin there are a lot of reasons they would. Drivers can be fork lifted by implementing KPI compatibility, and that can be done in a shortest path fashion or done in a way to realize new protection from the new OS. Developme
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by kev009 10y ago
There's really nothing special about Linux, but timing was right and political blunders beset all other contenders. In the end the price tag of a free UNIX was too good for cheap web hosts and eventually hyperscalers and Linux had ins
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by kev009 10y ago
I had some level of respect for The Guardian vis a vis Glenn Greenwald. But wow, the brazen seed on current events "Might Trump have been recruited by Putin?" and "right wingers are easier to convert". First class jour

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