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The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

May 28 - Virtual Time and Global States of Distributed Systems , Friedemann Mattern, Parallel and Distributed Algorithms, North-Holland (1989) , p. July 20 Xen and the art of virtualization by Paul Barham, Boris Dragovic, Keir Fraser, Steven Hand, Timothy L. Araújo, K. Bar-Yam, Journal of Systems Science and Complexity. Malo, France.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I made major contributions to two Sun Blueprints books on Resource Management (1999) with Richard McDougall, Evert Hoogendoorn, Enrique Vargas, and Jim Bialaski, and Capacity Planning for Internet Services (2001) with Bill Walker. Nothing went wrong, I got to see some events, and got very cold at times.

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Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

I've suggested adding a command to docker to make listing at least the top-level PIDs in containers easier. ## Virtual Machines The two main technologies on Linux are Xen and KVM (and there's Bhyve for BSD). What happens if processes really do try to populate all that virtual memory? I think that is a weakness of Linux.