[57north-discuss] Programmer required

2014-07-29 Thread Noodle
Hi folks! I'm looking for someone who is good at programming to rewrite some code for me! I currently have Observium running at work and it is taking ages to poll all our devices. The poller is currently written in php. Our Cacti reduced it's poll time from over 300s to 20s when we changed from

Re: [57north-discuss] Programmer required

2014-07-29 Thread Robert McWilliam
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014, at 10:38 AM, Noodle wrote: So basically I'd like the poller.php re-written in C, (or just something better) or if anyone wants to look at the php to see if they can speed it up I can pass the files along! I'd recommend against writing networking stuff in C unless you

Re: [57north-discuss] Programmer required

2014-07-29 Thread Edward Watson
Would be interesting to see what kind of improvement Facebook's JIT php compiller 'HipHop' can make. Whether you'd want FB-sponsered binaries on your production system is another matter o/c. Cheers, Ed ___ 57north-discuss mailing list

Re: [57north-discuss] Programmer required

2014-07-29 Thread Tom Jones
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 10:38:27AM +0100, Noodle wrote: I currently have Observium running at work and it is taking ages to poll all our devices. The poller is currently written in php. Our Cacti reduced it's poll time from over 300s to 20s when we changed from its default poller to spine

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday

2014-07-29 Thread Edward Watson
On 29 July 2014 07:34, Tom Jones jo...@sdf.org wrote: Hi Folks, Again it is Tuesday 57North's weekly open night. The space will be open to anyone that wants to come along and see what we get up to. I'll be down doing stuff, either (0) Psion keyboard interface, or (1) homemade CnC, or (3)

Re: [57north-discuss] Programmer required

2014-07-29 Thread Iain R. Learmonth
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:10:22AM +0100, Robert McWilliam wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2014, at 10:38 AM, Noodle wrote: So basically I'd like the poller.php re-written in C, (or just something better) or if anyone wants to look at the php to see if they can speed it up I can pass the files along!

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday

2014-07-29 Thread Dave Hibberd
I'll be about with a big smile, drinking gin and being social, offering hugs and good chat* to those who desire them, and generally trying to be a catalyst for awesome. Hx *I assume my chat is good. -- Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davehibberd Check out my blog: http://beta.hibby.info

Re: [57north-discuss] Programmer required

2014-07-29 Thread Tony Travis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/07/14 13:46, Iain R. Learmonth wrote: [...] Having written mass survey tools where lots of connections get constructed and torn down, I can say that C is *vastly* more efficient than Python and other interpreted languages. Hi, Iain. I think

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday

2014-07-29 Thread Carl Anderson
I have also picked up 20 cans of beer for this evening. ___ 57north-discuss mailing list 57north-discuss@lists.57north.co http://lists.57north.co/listinfo/57north-discuss

Re: [57north-discuss] Servers

2014-07-29 Thread Tony Travis
On 29/07/14 22:53, Calum Enterobsidian wrote: Just thought I'd send out a quick message to see if anyone wants one of the older servers, otherwise I'll take them away to be disposed of. Hi, Calum. I'm happy for you to do whatever you like with them. Bye, Tony. -- Minke Informatics

Re: [57north-discuss] Servers

2014-07-29 Thread Tony Travis
On 29/07/14 22:56, Carl Anderson wrote: THey use too much power and we wont use them. feel free to take them. Hi, Carl. Just measured power consumption of my Parallella microBeowulf = 54W :-) Bye, Tony. -- Minke Informatics Limited, Registered in Scotland - Company No. SC419028 Registered