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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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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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99.999% uptime?
Even with gazillions of dollars in the bank, it seems like the Five Nines eludes even Google.
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Ready to kick the tires
It’s not done yet, but if you want, go ahead and try out the Eclipse Community Forums. The Control Panel needs work but the rest should function quite well.
If you see anything broken, please comment on bug 284281.
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Newsgroups? No way, let’s call them something else.
While many[1] enjoy the finer charms of NNTP newsgroups, it’s no secret that NNTP is one of those old-school protocols, predating the joys of Facebook, Tweetering and instant texting.
On some blog somewhere, someone suggested I look at FUDForum for Eclipse.org, since it’s one of those cool Forum apps that has the ability to act as [...]
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