- @cafeugo: i think there’s a #define somewhere for the max number of tables in a join… although casually surprised it performs well at … #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-04-09
- in San Francisco #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-04-08
- why can’t it be *simple* to buy tomtom maps and load them on to your device – on linux #
- i hate packing #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-04-07
- WHY THE FUCK CAN’T WE HAVE A SEARCH FUNCTION ON OUR INTERNAL WIKI THAT *WORKS*. ARRRGGGHH #
- @FallenPegasus sounds about right #
- @bytebot: no, i just keep whining about us not having one #
- if crack is anything like coffee, i can understand the addiction. coffee *GOOD* #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-04-04
- emulating a 68k Mac and using the Finder to navigate my Linux filesystem is much faster and nicer than using Nautilus :( #
- "it burns like hygiene" #
- "oh look, all the committee members are playing duke nukem forevaaa" #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-04-03
- banging head hard up against something causing link failures #
- lots of washing up done – yay! #
- (and appliances polished) #
- oven cleaner works great on stovetops :) #
- "perhaps if they weren’t such idiots i wouldn’t have to call them that" #
- i object to adverts for cleaning stuff *always* just having women in them. #
- i don’t remember this scrubs episode… hrrrm #
- xVM versus xvm – ARGH #
- 5.1 GA has been a couple of months away since i joined the company… oh wait, i didn’t say that. #
- ($10 bet with Jeffrey on release… he thinks it’s easy money – and I hope he’s right) #
- I wonder if VirtualBox is any nicer than kvm? #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-04-02
- mmmm… no power (now for 5hours) #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-04-01
- descaling coffee machine (been too long)… which means delay for coffee! argH! #
- /me kills OpenOffice.org again #
- I SAID NORMAL VIEW YOU HEAP OF JUNK #
- need to play guitar hero to get over marketing presentation slides #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-03-31
- @pjf: it’s 12:14pm atm. daylight saving not over for 1 more week #
- @pjf my phone thought it was over… computer didn’t #
- so the "Windows Update" on my phone obviously did no good #
- @brianaker: yes. #
- i wonder why MMS doesn’t work on my phone.. GAH #
- why do people send email, then immediatley have vacation responses? #
- actually… why do people have vacation responses… #
- Tool, is awesome. #
- @jenn: what you having trouble with? #
- it only takes 36 pages or so of employment agreement text to be employed by sun #
- we should really switch to an ubuntu-style release model for MySQL #
- @FallenPegasus the git-svn and bzr-svn converters don’t work too bad either. #
- i don’t know why… but i feel like filter coffee #
- (which is a problem… ’cause i don’t have one of those doodads… and I’ve possibly bought enough kitchen appliances for this week) #
- @katekrab: I have a theory it’s because it’s easy to bulk-make. #
- @kattekrab: of course, most filter coffee is complete crap. #
- @FallenPegasus: i’m not sure…there may be… there’s a wiki page on the bzr site #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-03-28
- i have the urge to watch the south park movie (could be because listening to the soundtrack) #
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Dear LazyWeb, autoconf and #define HAVE_ 0
How do I make an existing project (let’s say, MySQL) switch from generating a config.h that has #undef HAVE_FOO to one that generates #define HAVE_FOO 0 instead?
Why? Well, here’s why:
Testing for features should be done by including “config.h” and using #if HAVE_<feature>. Use of #if (rather than #ifdef) allows the gcc -Wundef flag to warn users about features which aren’t defined 1 or 0 in config.h.
default filesystem and disk parameters are for wusses
I can’t remember the last time i used default mkfs or mount options… oh yeah, that’s right – by accident.
Anyway… I did a little experiment today.
The filesystem is my laptop /home – XFS, 100GB, 95% used (so 5-6GB free), rather aged. This is where a lot of my MySQL development is done. Mkfs options: 128MB log, version2 log. Mount options: logbufs=8, logbsize=256k. All of this geared towards increasing metadata performance.
Why metadata performance? well… source code trees are a lot of metadata :)
So, let’s try some things: cloning a repository and then removing the repository.
Two variables are being tested: mounting the file system with nobarrier (or barrier, the default). Write barriers tell the disk to ensure write order to the platter when write cache is in use. Also testing disabling (or enabling, the default) the disk write cache.
NOTE: the last option which has the write cache enabled and write barriers disabled is NOT SAFE. If your machine crashes, you loose data, and potentially your file system ends up corrupted.
So I’m now disabling my disk write cache and mounting with nobarrier.
If you use real disk arrays – e.g. battery backed write cache RAID boxes, the story is likely very different!
Twitter Updates for 2008-03-27
- Currently in the melbourne sun office #
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Going to MySQL User Conference? Come to LugRadio Live!
LugRadio is possibly the best Linux/Free Software related podcast out there – and it has been for a very long time. LugRadio Live is a live event where lots of people gather together to love freedom.
This year, there’s a LugRadio Live USA – and it’s in San Francisco. So, are you going to be (or are able to be) around SF the weekend before the MySQL UC? If, there is no excuse not to drop in on LugRadio Live USA – it should be awesome! (oh, and it doesn’t cost much… like $10 or something)
Twitter Updates for 2008-03-26
Twitter Updates for 2008-03-25
- @bytebot: we should go for a bite before you go #
- @bytebot: sounds good #
- @bytebot: hrrm… dunno… what you feel like eating? #
- @pjf: such things do not exist #
- @pjf: it’s because there’s a duopoly on direct flights #
- @bytebot: hrrm… well.. i’m going to go for lunch now… back soon #
- @pjf: and i arrived 5 minutes in …. usually with films you can pick up what’s going on after a bit… not this one. it got to the end, … #
- @pjf: i do hope the game was better… although being stabbed in the arm is better. #
- @pjf: still sounds better than the film #
- the "welcome to sun" package i just got in mail: about an inch thick, with a "too heavy" label on the envelope #
- "This agreement shall be goverened by the laws of Austria". #
- i find the whole idea of private health insurance offensive. #
- @pjf: i was casually wondering wtf there #
- evolution crashed *AGAIN* #
- i am *really* please with the performance of the Maria engine. #
- hrrm… rdiff-backup is rather slow… nearly 5 hours for last night backup #
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Possibly the worst movie ever: In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2007)
Watched In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2007) the other day. Fucking awful. Only watch while unconcious and wanting to have the remaining life sucked out of you. We took to making up dialog for the people on the screen – and ours was better.
Twitter Updates for 2008-03-23
- finally hooked up some extra disks to the mythtv box: 1,146,934MB total now :) #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-03-22
- mmmm…. coffee #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-03-21
- gah… OpenOffice.org Impress still has that bug where the curved lines randomly change on save/load #
- okay… even unconnected curved lines change after saving, close, open. ARRGH #
- good friday is annoying – everything closed #
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