The Pith of Performance

Possibly pithy insights into computer performance analysis and capacity planning based on the Guerrilla series of books and training classes provided by Performance Dynamics Company.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Leistungsdiagnostik - Load Averages and Stretch Factors

My latest article for the German Linux-Magazin has just appeared in the August edition under the title " Leistungsdiagnostik ". Th...

Waiting Snakes

I'm in Europe this month and a colleague here pointed me at this site which contains quite a good summary of books, papers, and tools on...

Thursday, June 28, 2007

Unnatural Numbers

What is the next number on the sequence: 180, 90, 45, ... ? Since each number appears to be obtained by halving the previous number in the ...

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Housekeeping My List of Pubs

I've been out of the office more than in, this week, so I have a lot of catching up to do. The only thing I've managed to achieve h...

Friday, June 15, 2007

Linux Instrumentation: Is Linus Part of the Problem?

I was interested to read in a LinuxWorld article entitled "File System, Power and Instrumentation: Can Linux Close Its Technical Gaps?...

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Linux CFS: Completely Fair or Completely Fogged?

A while ago, I saw what looked like an interesting blog entry announcing a new task scheduler for Linux called CFS: Completely Fair Schedul...

Friday, May 25, 2007

My Message to Virtualization Vendors

Virtualization is about creating illusions (see Chapter 7 in Guerrilla Capacity Planning ). However, vendors need to recognize that virtual...

View web version

About Me

Neil Gunther: Blogger code: B7 d++ t k+ s u-- f i++ o x e+ l- c--;
Bio page

View my complete profile

Powered by Blogger.