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Intel Specification Update

In October 1, 2010, Intel released a document that describes design defects, known errors, and all the stuff that can make a sysadmin's life a pain. It was an specification update for the Intel 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (e1000 driver for most *nix implementations). This ethernet controller is ...
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NFS, TCP, retrans and timeo

I think there is a misunderstanding regarding the protocols and NFS options while using it over TCP. As the NFS is an old protocol, and used to UDP, when the implementations did change the default transport to TCP, the features from one were mixed to the other in some interpretations. Well, ...
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Solaris 11

Hello there... As many of you already know, a new version of Solaris Operating System is available: Solaris 11 Express. Seems like the Solaris 11 will be released next year, but i really don't know if that is the case neither the diff between Solaris 11 Express and Solaris 11. From what ...
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Elevator Algorithm II

DO NOT TRY IT IN PRODUCTION. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! In my last post i did write about some issues related with disksort: 1) Performance (Latency) 2) Consistency In my D Script i'm printing the buf sector when the sd driver receives it. So, without sorting. That's important because i'm ...
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