A Smackerel of Opinion

Dustin Kirkland recently announced ZFS being officially supported by Canonical for Ubuntu Xenial 16.04.    We've written a short refere...

I wrote eventstat a few years ago to track wakeup events that keep a machine from being fully idle.  For Ubuntu Xenial Xerus 16.04 I've...

One issue when running parallel processes is contention of shared resources such as the Last Level Cache (aka LLC or L3 Cache).  For example...

Over the past month I've been finding the odd moments [1] to add some small improvements and fix a few bugs to pagemon (a tool to monit...