Thesis: SMP is a failure for most Internet servers

I used to be a big proponent of getting SMP PClone servers instead ofuniprocessor ones. Nowadays, though, I'm not so sure, and I now activelytilt towards UP machines.

The advantage of SMP over UP is more CPU capacity and to someextent larger caches (if the OS scheduling works out right). ButInternet-facing servers are rarely hurting for more CPU; often youreally want more IO and maybe more memory.

(This assumes that the server is not grotesquely overconfigured to startwith,


理論小劇場(久違了)

通常自稱盲動無理性不懂理論的詩壇前輩劉某,日前介入另一詩壇名宿與某肥胖女子的(偽)理論爭論中,並在肥胖女子吹得如皮球鼓漲的時候,穿過理論迷障,以一種易家蘭式的堅定和銳利道:你蝦佢囉。在場人士為其氣勢所

偷拍 – 誰被恐嚇?

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去看《偷拍》的經驗有點特別,有很多觀眾都等到放映機放完所有片子才離開,只因心裏心裏有個謎。 [Spoiler alert!]

故事講的是 Georges 一家陸續接收到一些監視其家的錄影帶和一些奇怪的畫,然後我們就跟著主角本身調查這件事,也發


Weekly spam summary on July 15th, 2006

This week, we:

  • got 12,289 messages from 220 different IP addresses.
  • handled 18,265 sessions from 954 different IP addresses.
  • received 143,889 connections from at least 48,413 different IPaddresses.
  • hit a highwater of 14 connections being checked at once.

Session volume is up slightly from last week ,but everything else is down. The per day table is relatively boring, soI'm omitting it


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風流

此間諸事紛擾,要評說也令人心煩,不評說又叫人氣憤。有道是:“出得嚟行,預咗要還。”早幾年的威風,如今一天一天被削弱,真是應了那一句:“有咁耐風流,有咁耐xx”

xx是什麼?你自己填吧!你看到什麼就填什麼,不

A robot wish

I've come to realize that I have a two-part wish about web robots andspiders and so on. To wit:

I wish that there was something that all robots put in the HTTP requestheaders (perhaps having 'ROBOT' somewhere in their User-Agent string),and then that there was a standard HTTP response code for 'requestdeclined because robots should not crawl this resource'.

Part of the problems of dealing with (well behaved) robots is that theonly real robot signature is fetching


20060715網摘 – ODF

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我其實真的不想這裡變成廣告blog

所以以下的話都是很認真地說的。

在hk yahoo和google search「字花」(各看50多頁),除了有大量關於「賭字花」的新聞之外(約30多頁),還找到很多不認識的朋友,在自己的地方或討論組裡推介 /談及/評論《字花》。怎麼說,直

張懸


上周在邊度有書聽到張懸
初時誤以為是陳綺貞
就是覺得好聽
買回家細聽
歌是好的
不過歌詞真的沒有陳綺貞的深刻
不過這樣的比較毫無道理
總之整張cd都令人聽得舒服
不信可看看這裡:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRtNVtp_2FA&search