Category Archives: Computing

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RAID and file system performance tuning

The last time I tested software RAID 1 under NetBSD I wasn’t really satisfied with the performance. Especially file system operations were much slower than I expected. Resulting from that my current home server uses an Intel SRCS14L RAID Controller … Continue reading

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A Looking Glass Into The Past

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

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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