Archive for June, 2009
New committer: Michael Tuexen (src)
New committer: Michael Tuexen (src)
Portmgr reorganization
Portmgr is happy to announce that two new members will join the team.
KDE 4.2.4 Released
An anonymous reader writes “KDE 4.2.4 has been released. See the release announcement for details.” Barring a “security issue or another grave bug,” this is the end of the KDE 4.2 line, which means for distros based on long-term support, it might be the thing to get used to for a while. Read more of [...]
When VMware Performance Fails, Try BSD Jails
Siker writes in to tell us about the experience of email transfer service YippieMove, which ditched VMware and switched to FreeBSD jails. “We doubled the amount of memory per server, we quadrupled SQLite’s internal buffers, we turned off SQLite auto-vacuuming, we turned off synchronization, we added more database indexes. We were confused. Certainly we had [...]
When VMWare Performance Fails, Try BSD Jails
Siker writes in to tell abou the experience of email transfer service YippieMove, which ditched VMware and switched to FreeBSD jails. “We doubled the amount of memory per server, we quadrupled SQLite’s internal buffers, we turned off SQLite auto-vacuuming, we turned off synchronization, we added more database indexes. We were confused. Certainly we had expected [...]
