Tag Archives: benchmark

Fill an LVM volume group completely with a single logical volume

August 25, 2011

I learned a cool LVM trick today – how to resize a logical volume to use a certain percentage of a volume group. Since I just have one logical volume in the group, I did the following: [root@nyu ~]# lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/diclonius/vector Extending logical volume vector to 7.28 TiB Logical volume vector successfully resized Thanks Redhat Documentation! In other news, I ran a performance test on my 5-drive RAID-5 using HD204UI drives from Samsung: [root@nyu tmp]# dd if=/dev/zero of=foo [...]

Giganews vs. Astraweb

January 17, 2009

Recently, I’ve been a bit low on money thanks to 2-3 expensive hobbies I’ve picked up. So, I took a look at my bills, and remembered I was spending $30 per month on usenet. Well, that’s too much, but high-speed unlimited usenet providers with 200 day + retention and SSL are hard to find. Then, I noticed that Astraweb is moving to 270+ retention soon, making the $11/month worth it (almost 1/3 of the cost of Giganews). Currently, they still [...]

Firefox Minefield Beta is Awesome

October 29, 2008

So, I tried Firefox Minefield Beta today at the suggestion of Slashdot, and I like it. It’s really speedy compared to even the previous 3.0 versions. Text shadows now work, which is really cool. SunSpider Benchmark Results

Fulltext Indexing Wikipedia with Sphinx

September 15, 2007

So, earlier this year, I decided it would be cool to mirror Wikipedia. So, I successfully set up a local copy on my system, and it’s been just sitting there ever since. But lately, I’ve been interested in fulltext indexing offered by various indexing engines, and Sphinx has looked especially tasty. So, I figured I’d sit down and try it today. I pointed it at my 16GB of Wikipedia text in my MySQL database.