Archive for August, 2009

Bugzilla 3.4 coming soon

This Saturday I’ll be upgrading our “ancient” Bugzilla 3.0 to the latest Bugzilla 3.4. Lots of new features will be available to everyone, and many of those are features our committers have requested. Just check out this dependency tree!
Here’s a highlight of a few new features:
A new Guided Bug Entry wizard to help new users [...]

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Network Upgrade

Tomorrow, Denis and I will be heading in to the data center to upgrade our network gear–to take advantage of the equipment that Cisco donated to us. This is a big upgrade since the key pieces of our infrastructure, including the LocalDirector load balancer, and the PIX firewall are as old as the Foundation, and [...]

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Squeezing more performance out of your Apache web server

You can learn a lot about your web server by strace‘ing it. Look at this, with my commentary in red:
www-vm1:~ # strace -p 5827
Process 5827 attached - interrupt to quit
poll(
^^Your shell will sit here until this process
receives a request

[{fd=14, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}], 1, 15000) = 1
read(14, “GET /modeling/images/dl-more.gif”…, 8000) = [...]

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The endless list of Forums

First off: I’d like to thank Eric Rizzo for helping out with the new Forums. As if he doesn’t help out enough by answering questions and providing insight, now he’s organizing the Forums, giving them descriptive names and pinging projects to get updated descriptions.
Now, on to the problem. There are about 115 forums for you [...]

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