Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

In this particular investigation, which spanned twenty months, we suspected hardware failure, compiler bugs, linker bugs, and other possibilities. Jumping too quickly to blaming hardware or build tools is a classic mistake, but in this case the mistake was that we weren’t thinking big enough. failure rate.

Programming 79

Programming Hardware Cache Code 79

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

It uses a Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) to provide a Solaris-kernel interface on Linux, so that unmodified ZFS code can execute. There's also a ZFS send/recv code path that should try to use the TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE flag (as suggested by a coworker), to avoid a kernel hang (can't kill -9 the process). Hit Ctrl-C to end. ^C

Virtualization 76

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O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

” Each step has been a twist on “what if we could write code to interact with a tamper-resistant ledger in real-time?” Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. Mental contortions led to code contortions led to frustration. And, often, to giving up.

Hardware 99

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 99