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… been on 2 sets of airplanes in last 96 hours, will be on another tomorrow. Sorry about the posting delays …

root@jrs8:/home/scalable/io-bm# mpirun -np 8 ./io-bm.exe -n 32 -f /big/file -w [tid=0] each thread will output 4.000 gigabytes [tid=0] using buffered IO [tid=2] each thread will output 4.000 gigabytes [tid=0] page size ... 4096 bytes [tid=0] number of elements per buffer ... 2097152 [tid=5] each thread will output 4.000 gigabytes [tid=5] using buffered IO [tid=5] page size ... 4096 bytes [tid=2] using buffered IO [tid=2] page size ... 4096 bytes [tid=3] each thread will output 4.

root@jrs8:/opt/scalable/bin# bonnie++ -u root -d /big -f Using uid:0, gid:0. Writing intelligently...done Rewriting...done Reading intelligently...done start 'em...done...done...done... Create files in sequential order...done. Stat files in sequential order...done. Delete files in sequential order...done. Create files in random order...done. Stat files in random order...done. Delete files in random order...done. Version 1.03 ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random- -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks-- Machine Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP jrs8 32096M 570921 83 142287 22 259411 19 773.

to disk, real disk, not nullio. Single JackRabbit over 10 GbE NIC to another single JackRabbit iSCSI unit. buffered writes: root@jrs8:/opt/scalable/bin# dd if=/dev/zero of=/big/local.file bs=8M count=10000 10000+0 records in 10000+0 records out 83886080000 bytes (84 GB) copied, 167.568 seconds, 501 MB/s buffered reads: root@jrs8:/opt/scalable/bin# dd if=/big/local.file of=/dev/null bs=8M 10000+0 records in 10000+0 records out 83886080000 bytes (84 GB) copied, 322.052 seconds, 260 MB/s unbuffered writes: root@jrs8:/opt/scalable/bin# dd if=/dev/zero of=/big/local.file bs=8M count=10000 oflag=direct 10000+0 records in 10000+0 records out 83886080000 bytes (84 GB) copied, 202.

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I am a (semi)poly-glot. Fluent (or barely so) in 2 languages. Can read characters of a third. If you push me hard (or give me time), I can even create my own mappings for a fourth (I did this with German and Cryllic/Russian when I visited Vienna and saw a war memorial). But, and this is the important thing, I don’t know any of the rather large variety of languages you are sending spam to me in.

some time in the last few days we hit 100k views. Well, this is a little misleading, as I installed that plugin about halfway through the life of this blog, and from what I have seen of the logs, the plugin counter is missing ~40% of the views (usually one page referrals). It also ignores the rss feeds. As it turns out, this is important. What is interesting is looking on number of subscribers on google reader and others.

Read this at /. I guess it is not surprising that people would attempt to influence market forces to adjust the price they pay for labor. Increase the talent pool, and competition grows, lowering the price. Cool idea. [please note that this is dripping with sarcasm … I am an avowed capitalist and do not believe that market manipulation is a good thing … the invisible hand as it were, has a tendency to respond to market forces] We have seen this before though, in other labor markets.