Author Archives: Matthias Scheler

A Looking Glass Into The Past

Posted on 7 June, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

I discovered today that Sun has opened parts of its internal bug database to the public as part of the OpenSolaris project. This allows me to have a look at some of the bugs I fixed in Solaris years ago … Continue reading →

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Hackathon 11

Posted on 26 May, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

David Holland organised NetBSD’s Hackathon 11 at the last weekend. The goal was to fix bugs in preparation for the NetBSD 5.0 release. I decided that this was the best opportunity to fix PR kern/38100 which had rendered my ULTRA60 … Continue reading →

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NetBSD/xen I/O Performance

Posted on 23 May, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

In the past NetBSD has been reported to deliver poor I/O performance when running under the Xen hypervisor. Because I’m considering running Xen on my home server in future I ran some benchmarks under NetBSD/xen myself recently. I used my … Continue reading →

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