CentOS 5.6 supported/recommended FS?

2011-08-02 Thread der.hans
moin moin, we have a mix of CentOS 5.x boxen. They're currently using ext3 for the OS and reiserfs for a RAID0 filesystem for fast writing. We have a couple hundred of them. We've been experiencing a few kernel panics a month due to reiserfs. At one point when researching the problem I found

Re: CentOS 5.6 supported/recommended FS?

2011-08-02 Thread Joseph Sinclair
Last I checked XFS was still supported; when tuned correctly it's still the fastest filesystem for database transaction logs (although some of the log-structured filesystem may eventually beat it). EXT4 still has some significant performance issues and has regressed quite a bit in that regard

Programming Language History

2011-08-02 Thread Dazed_75
I thought this was a very interesting visual history http://www.howtogeek.com/69453/the-evolution-of-computer-programming-languages-infographic -- Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. -

Re: Programming Language History

2011-08-02 Thread Adam McCullough
Heh. The chart at the bottom shows which languages are the most popular. Java being at the top didn't surprise me... what surprised me is that Assembly is more popular than LISP. As an emacs user, I almost have to take that personally! *smirk* On 2 August 2011 09:35, Dazed_75

Re: Programming Language History

2011-08-02 Thread keith smith
The graph at the bottom show a ranking of languages as Most Popular.  I wonder if that is the same as In Use. Interestingly it shows Java as the Most Popular. Keith Smith --- On Tue, 8/2/11, Dazed_75 lthiels...@gmail.com wrote: From: Dazed_75 lthiels...@gmail.com