Archive for January, 2008
It worked. At least I think it did…. That’s awesome.
I’ve now had about 24 hours to play with the Mtron SSDs and had some time to benchmark them. The good news is that the benchmarks look really solid. The drive is very competitive in terms of performance. I’m seeing about 100MB/s sequential read throughput and 80MB/s sequential write throughput. I’ve had some time to [...]
A lot of people have been buzzing about Maria over the last few days. One of the things I’ve been thinking about is how Maria/MyISAM fits into the SSD puzzle WRT InnoDB. InnoDB was generally designed for use with HDDs. Specifically, the write ahead log was added for MVCC and additional performance. However, MyISAM on [...]
CNN has an article about slipping fake bombs through TSA security: TAMPA, Florida (CNN) — Jason — that’s the name CNN was asked to call him — slides a simulated explosive into an elastic back support. The mock bomb is as slim as a wallet; its fuse, the size of a cigarette. He wraps the [...]
I’m fascinated by intelligence in non-simian species. The Octopus and Crow are two animals that have vastly higher intelligence than a lay man would assume. I spent some time tonight doing research and found some interesting content on the subject. For example. This crow is smart enough to form a tool from wire in order [...]
I’ve been reviewing our settings for innodb prior to testing our new SSDs drives later this week. Here are some initial thoughts: * Both sync_binlog and innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit should both be enabled. The extra seeks required isn’t really an issue on SSD and the extra reliability is worth the slight performance hit. * Read ahead for [...]
It looks like there’s another competitive SSD on the market. The Stec Zeus IOPS. I foolishly dismissed this drive before because I thought they weren’t disclosing their write rate (which all the other vendors are doing to lie about their performance). Turns out they’re claiming 200MB/s with 100MB/s write throughput. If these numbers are accurate [...]
The Mailinator guys blogged about how they were using a modified Aho-Corasick style multiple string pattern matching algorithm to index 185 emails/s. Aho-Corasick takes all the search strings and builds them into a Trie so that it can scan the whole document for N strings in once pass. The problem is that Aho-Corasick doesn’t support [...]
Center Networks things it might be a good idea to charge for feeds: What if blogs and journals offered a full feed for $1 per month with no ads, mobile access, etc. Would you subscribe for a buck? What I am proposing is the following forms of monetization: standard Web site with ads, partial feed [...]
A few MySQL-planeters linked to this article describing 14 reasons not to use MySQL. Honestly, I can’t figure out why. The article is poorly written and not very convincing. Most of the 14 reasons aren’t arguments AGAINST MySQL as much as they’re arguments for considering use of another database. He ends with something I just [...]
Prediction. In mid-2008 (early 2009), one of the major hardware vendors (IBM, Dell, Sun, etc) will ship a blade server with all SSD. The key will be that the blade itself will be a LOT smaller (by about 20-30%) since power consumption and dissipation is reduced. They’re also going to take advantage of the low [...]
Check this out… Serverbeach has the Mtron drives and I should have a test machine soon. I can’t wait to throw MySQL against these guys! The benchmarks should rule! This totally makes my day! The end is nigh for HDD. Check out the benchmarks on these boys. I hope they live up to the hype. [...]
Just awesome:
OK… I have the flu again and not really in a blogging mood. I just wanted to say WOOT that WordPress raised another round of funding. Automattic, the commercial arm of the popular WordPress publishing platform for blogs, has received $29.5 million in financing from four companies, including a small portion from The New York [...]
I just stumbled across Plotr which looks really amazing. … which reminded me that I haven’t yet blogged about the amount of ping spam that we fight in Spinn3r: One of the great features of Spinn3r is that it has native spam prevention which prevents a good deal of worthless content form being indexed by [...]
Sublime Text is a new text editor that is designed to be a bit more modern and to primary support text editing why eschewing most of the bells and whistles of more ‘modern’ IDEs. I thoroughly subscribe to this philosophy which is why I”m such an Emacs addict. There was once nice feature which I [...]
Both Howard Stern *and* Penn Jillette support Ron Paul. Interesting!
This is your code on multicore processors. Be afraid.
Dathan is all of a sudden in love with MySQL: MySQL is by far the best Open source Database on the planet-support reflects that fact. I highly recommend getting a support contract to trouble shoot issues that make it into production, less learning the entire mysql code base and doing it yourself. (I know alot [...]
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