Das Boot
New server arrived
The refurbished HP Z800 arrived today in good condition. I hooked up an old keyboard and monitor and attempted to boot an Oracle Solaris x86 Live CD. It crashed when starting the installer and kicked me into single-user mode. Turns out it pays to read the Hardware Compatibility List entry carefully; Solaris x86 does not like the RAID+AHCP for . . .
Server build
Setting up a Solaris x86 server
Based on the old email registration the last time I ordered hardware through NewEgg was at least 10 years ago, before we lived in China and maybe even while I was still working for HBO.
I ordered a refurbished HP Z800 with dual hex-core Xeons, 24 GB, a 256 GB SSD, plus a pair of 3 TB Seagate Barracuda SATA II drives. I will be trying . . .
Chronicle, RAM disks and SSD
Mechanical sympathy applies to solid-state
I tested Chronicle Queue 3.2.1 with three disk types on an i7 MacBook
Air -- in part to try and answer for myself the question in Peter Lawrey's FAQ
about whether the disk write included in Chronicle was consequential.
I used the ExampleReadWriteMain.java for this purpose, and pointed it
at:
- NAS HDD - . . .
Objects as views
Code generation, SDO and zero GC collections
I came across C24's SDO the other day. It takes a very different approach to dealing with the problems of stop-the-world GC and memory bloat. It uses code generation to allow accessors to a compressed byte array with natural getters and setters as well as operations on the data, so it can represent large, complex objects with the minimum . . .
