My Sun T2000 is here, and with Cliff’s help it’s now patched, configured, and online. (Aside: what’s a Sun Happy Meal?)
I’ll second Jon’s assessment that Sun really should put some reasonable cable adapters in the box, as the the bundle of adapters necessary to make a null modem connection to the box is ridiculously out [...]

Posted June 11, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: amp, amps, apache, Blastwave.org, lamp, mysql, php, solaris, Solaris 10, sun, Sun Microsystems, t2000. Be the first one.

A Solaris sysadmin I’m not. But now that I’ve finally got the Sun T2000 server I begged for a while back, I’ve got to ramp it up right quick.
The first task is to get a, um, LAMP environment up and running (SAMP?…oh, Sun wants us to call it AMPS). A bit of Googling turned up [...]

Posted June 7, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: amp, amps, apache, lamp, mysql, open source, oss, php, solaris, sun, t2000. 5 Comments.

A couple notes from the past few days of tweaks and fixes:

Hyper-threading has a huge effect on LAMP performance. 
From now on, I’ll have bad dreams about running MySQL without Query Caching in the way that I used to have nightmares about going to school wearing only my underwear. The difference is that big. 
WordPress rocks, but [...]

Posted February 7, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: hyperthreading, lamp, mysql, mysql optimization, performance optimization, php, server optimization, server performance. 3 Comments.