well i canceled the kickstarter. that said if folks want to fund a multiday training course on driver development im agreeable. i can do it remotely too. with time to prepare materials and such i need more like $2k to make it worthwhile tho. i assume its about 4 days of effort total.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 8, 2016, at 11:54 AM, Will Beazley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Robert, > > Consider instead of 10K giving a 2-day class for 1 or so folks that for 1K > you give a 2-day remote course for ~10 folks. > That I could probably swing. > > I often considered signing up for the Joyent training but it just never jived > enough at work for them to swing it. The stuff I did do I paid myself so 1K > seems within reach with the way things are nowodays. > > Just a thought. > > Thank You, > Will > >> On 7/8/16 1:12 PM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: >> Crap. I just saw this now. I submitted a kickstarter: >> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597419130/1111180831?token=ace70d75 >> >> I can cancel this if you’re pretty far along. >> >>> On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Robert Mustacchi <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 7/1/16 22:12 , Garrett D'Amore wrote: >>> > its probably past time that i invest effort in the usb3 stack. sadly my >>> > current employer has not expressed any interest in that effort. anyone >>> > want to help subsidize the effort ? >>> >>> For what it's worth, we're already working on an xhci driver at Joyent. >>> It's something I'm working on as we know there's a lot of need for this >>> around the community. >>> >>> Robert >>> >>> >> On Jul 1, 2016, at 8:09 PM, Dave Finster <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> You might find that your better off investing in standard spinning SAS >>> >> disks but a very good SLOG like the HGST SSD800MH.B, which cost around >>> >> $800 AUD. The reason being that in a well built SmartOS box, you’ll have >>> >> ZFS ARC occupying RAM from which a good portion of your database reads >>> >> should be sourced from and when sync writes do need to be done, the SLOG >>> >> will help make them more performant. ARC makes read performance >>> >> exceptional for a cache hit. As for zpool layout, for database workloads >>> >> your better off with a multi-way mirror (i.e. a pool full of mirror >>> >> vdevs) as when there is an ARC miss it should be performant (at least >>> >> won’t incur parity penalties in RAIDZ). >>> >> >>> >> The only things to watch out for if your acquiring new hardware is NIC, >>> >> HBA and USB compatibility. The best NICs you can have for SmartOS are >>> >> Intel based ones (be they integrated onto the motherboard or as an >>> >> add-in card), I’ve not had any issues at all with LSI (now Avago) HBA >>> >> cards whereas on-board SATA/SAS can be hit and miss unless they are also >>> >> LSI based (but can be painful to reflesh if needed). The USB >>> >> compatibility aspect is becoming more important as Illumos doesn’t yet >>> >> have an appropriate driver which can cause boot issues and rules out >>> >> keyboard interactions - some boards have the ability to emulate USB2, >>> >> but some work and some don’t. >>> >> >>> >>> On 2 Jul 2016, at 8:45 AM, [email protected] wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> the vendor stated this: >>> >>> >>> >>> "Believe me, my programmers all were extremely frustrated when Linux >>> >>> and Sybase ADS were unreliable." >>> >>> >>> >>> i hope that was badly worded; though linux has never been the most >>> >>> reliable of the unix-like systems, i believe it's on a whole different >>> >>> level from any version of windows. i was once an MCSE but defected >>> >>> (back) to *nix because i wanted to get real work done instead of >>> >>> fighting the operating system and related products. >>> >>> >>> >>> thanks for the suggestions thus far - all good stuff, and i really >>> >>> appreciate the insight and recommendations. i didn't realize joyent >>> >>> provided virtio drivers - i've been using the ones from fedora for >>> >>> several years on the windows terminal server (sitting on >>> >>> joyent_20140221T042147Z). >>> >>> >>> >>> i have often wondered about running an all-ssd zones pool. the devs all >>> >>> poo-poo the use of consumer-grade disks, and sata in general. and they >>> >>> have made great cases for doing so. but for most of my uses, the price >>> >>> and potential performance looks extremely attractive. i don't usually >>> >>> have the ability to drop a couple of thousand dollars into a disk >>> >>> subsystem for these small installations. the customers typically >>> >>> already have enough hardware to run everything bare-metal, but i've >>> >>> tried hard to virtualize everything for the many benefits provided by >>> >>> doing so (plus of course the ones specific to using smartos/zfs). >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- On Jul 1, 2016, at 3:23 PM, Humberto Ramirez <[email protected]> >>> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Ideally it should sit on a SmartOS zone but... I understand he wants to >>> >>> run the database on top of NTFS...(Vendor requirement) however Sybase >>> >>> ADS its also available for linux. >>> >>> >>> >>>> On Jul 1, 2016 2:56 PM, "Joerg Sonnenberger" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 11:15:21AM -0400, Humberto Ramirez wrote: >>> >>>>> - Set "compression": "lz4" "block_size": 131072 (This one can >>> >>>>> only be set at creation) >>> >>>> >>> >>>> I would be careful with setting compression, since it can easily be a >>> >>>> waste of time, depending on the database. >>> >>>> >>> >>>> Joerg >>> >>>> >>> >>>> >>> >>>> http://www.listbox.com >>> >> >>> >> smartos-discuss | Archives | Modify Your Subscription >>> > >>> > >>> >>> >>> http://www.listbox.com > > smartos-discuss | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
