July 2011
2 posts
http://www.scribd.com/doc/53197944/Linux-and-H-W-op... →
Comprehensive list of things to think about both at the hardware and Linux level in order to run and maintain MySQL servers.
Some interesting things I didn’t know before:
nobarrier mount option - barriers are pretty similar to memory barriers, and are useful for filesystem journal updates. If the disk has a volatile cache (without a BBU), and if it tries to reorder writes, then bad...
A quick tutorial on generating a huffman tree →
Huffman {en|de}coding is really simple once you know how to build the Huffman tree.