Archive for September, 2009
Wow, what a painful release this was (is?)
If you were able to upgrade to Galileo SR1/Eclipse 3.5.1 in a timely manner, you were probably just lucky. Even today, 5 full days after the release, our servers are still crawling.
What happened?
In late August, Karl and I had installed our new Cisco load balancer and firewall. Unbeknownst to us, we were dropping connections. A [...]
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Galileo SR1 is here!
Galileo SR1, based on Eclipse 3.5.1, is here! You can fetch your favourite goodies from the usual URL:
http://eclipse.org/downloads/
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Galileo SR1 - available early for Friends of Eclipse
Galileo SR1 is available a day early for Friends of Eclipse. Here is your link:
http://friends.eclipse.org/galileo_sr1.html
Of course, it’s never a bad time to become a Friend:
http://www.eclipse.org/donate/
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What is my NFS server doing?
If you’re running an NFS daemon (nfsd), at some point in time you may have wondered what it was doing right now. If it’s running in kernel space, tools like lsof and strace don’t work, so you’re left guessing.
After much Googleing and some inspecting of the Kernel source code, I discovered some debugging values that [...]
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Fun times at work
What a fun quarter this has been so far. It started with the new Forums site, then Matt and I performed some much-needed hardware maintenance, Karl and I swapped all our Cisco devices for new ones, and I upgraded Bugzilla last weekend. In the mix, I’ve been hunting down MySQL and NFS problems and looking [...]
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