New kernel release for F10 available.

There is a new kernel release for Fedora 10 released. It is readily available on the public mirrors. I highly recommend it. My initial tests show a 5% performance increase using the 2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64 kernel.

Power Outage

My apologies to those of you that found my Gurulog® unavailable today. I had a local power outage in Long Beach. This took the site down for a few hours. It also changed my ISP provided Dynamic IP address. I created a Dynamic DNS link for the Gurulog. This will prevent future issues with the… Continue reading Power Outage

php 5.2.9-1 Update

php has released a new update for Windows php editions. This update does not apply to Nix variants. This is a security related update. php 5.2.9-1 is readily available on the php site.

Core 2 Duo vs. i7 920

Latest benchmark results: Phoronix Global This test computes Pi to the millionth decimal point. E8400 calculated the result nearly 1 full second faster. E8400 system tested has 2G of RAM. i7 920 System has 6G of RAM.

Gigabyte Authorized!

For those of you that have not read my previous Gigabyte related posts: I had a very negative set of experiences with Gigabyte starting in July of 2008. The situation has never been resolved to my satisfaction. I do not recommend Gigabyte products, nor will I use them, unless a client requires it. Imagine my… Continue reading Gigabyte Authorized!

Quad vs. Duo

Another benchmark test this afternoon. Results were consistent with the previous results. An Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 outperformed an Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 in several tests Quad outperformed in the SciMark2 Composite (by 20%) and Super Pi v2 (less than 1%) tests. Server bench test results at Phoronix Global

Server performance

I have created several server environs in the past week. Today I bench marked one of my servers using Phoronix test suite. The results were astounding! My server running a Core 2 Duo E8400 processor was able to outperform an 8 way Xeon (Dell PowerEdge R900) and a 16 way Xeon server in standardized tests.… Continue reading Server performance