Archive for April, 2008
Portal Committer Nominations Update
We’ve had the Portal’s committer election process in the field for more than a year now. During that time we have made some refinements and we haven’t stopped looking at how we can improve things. I’ll be working on a lot of updates over the next few months as we implement changes necessary [...]
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Bugzilla: mod_perl + mod_deflate = giggles
Bugzilla 3.0 supports huge performance gains via mod_perl, but I haven’t enabled it on bugs.eclipse.org because the added RAM requirements would kill our PHP-tuned cluster. mod_deflate, which compresses HTML output on-the-fly, is not enabled either, as it adds too much CPU load to our already busy cluster. However, as we gear up to deploy [...]
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Your CPU is bleeding edge when…
.. this is your boot screen. I’m setting up the cool AMD servers that were donated at EclipseCON. Strangely, one of them has “AMD Engineering sample” as the CPU brand, instead of its properly-branded “Quad Code AMD Opteron” brothers.
I am fully confident that these Engineering Samples are up to the task. Sort [...]
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MyFoundation Portal Gets a Facelift
Committers and members are familiar with the MyFoundation Portal that has become a key face of the Foundation in the last year and a half. When you logged in, components on the screen looked like this.Gabe and I hacked on the Portal on Friday and Gabe did some more hacking this morning, and those [...]
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Humour me: Nick Boldt strikes again
You need to go read the description of this bug. Nick’s LOL script made me LMFAO!!11!
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Tuning busy Linux boxes
Anyone with a bit of skill can put together a fast Linux box for serving files and databases. Hook up thousands of users accessing 500G of data with hundreds of SQL queries/second and you have a challenge.
You don’t need fancy tools for finding bottlenecks, as they typically occur in four areas: CPU, RAM, Disk [...]
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April Fools fun with committers
I’m only a week late in blogging about this, but I pulled a joke on my beloved committers last week when I sent out an oh-so-formal-looking email stating that I was:
- drastically reducing disk quotas (in light of p2’s greatness)- moving the server infra from Linux to Windows (hahaha)- erasing all CVS projects at the [...]
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COBOL IDE project most popular Eclipse project
Long-time popular projects WTP and CDT didn’t stand a chance against the COBOL project’s stellar gain in popularity in March. Registering over 6 million downloads for March alone, the COBOL project has become the #1 most popular project at eclipse.org. “The Canadian government still uses COBOL” said Eclipse Evangelist Wayne Beaton. [...]
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