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When you get to the level where you start needing VPS’ (Virtual Private Servers) it’s important to understand how they work & how you can get the most out of them. Poorly set up servers can cause you all sorts of problems like Downtime...

I saw Transparent Huge Pages is disabled in the kernel config, so I tried enabling it, since all more recent Linux distributions have it enabled by default and it should give you a little performance boost for free. After compiling the kernel, the Odroid...

Hi all, Changes since 20121127: The ia64 tree lost its conflict. The powerpc tree still had its build failure for which I applied a patch. The modules tree still had its build failure so I used the version from next-20121115. The mfd tree gained...

It was about this time in 2013 that Michael Corey, Jeff Szastak and I started writing Virtualizing SQL Server with VMware: Doing IT Right (VMware Press) 2014. Microsoft SQL Server was the single most virtualized business critical app in the world then...

In a previous “Driving in the Fast Lane” blog post we focused on optimization of instance CPU resources. This time around let’s take a dive into the handling of system memory, and more specifically configurable page sizes. We will reuse the environment...