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Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group
http://dlslug.org/
a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org
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The next regular monthly meeting of the DLSLUG will be held:
Thursday, March 5th, 7-9PM
at: Dartmouth College, Haldeman 041
All are welcome, free of charge.
Agenda
7:00 Sign-in, networking
7:15 Introductory remarks
7:20 Improving Linux Disk Performance
presented by Bill Stearns
We'll cover some common disk performance problems and show some
practical solutions: adding RAM, ionice, noatime, journal
options, tmpfs and ramdisk, RAID, defragmentation, swappiness,
RAM and flash media, and different filesystems. While some are
involved and take some planning ahead, a few others are one or
two line changes that can quickly improve responsiveness and
bandwidth. Anyone is welcome to attend. While some of the
concepts apply to other operating systems, the practical steps
are specific to Linux.
Bill is a System Administrator at Dartmouth College and
consultant for Intelguardians. He is a content author and
faculty member at the SANS Institute, teaching both the Linux
System Administration and Perimeter Security tracks. Bill's
background is in network and operating system security; he
was the chief architect of one commercial and two open source
firewalls and is an active contributor to multiple projects in
the Linux development effort. His spare time is spent
coordinating and feeding a major antispam blacklist, and
assisting the technical community as a volunteer Incident
Handler for the Internet Storm Center.
Bill's articles and tools can be found in SysAdmin magazine,
online journals, and at http://www.stearns.org .
8:50 Roundtable Exchange - where the attendees can make
announcements or ask a Linux/FLOSS question of the group.
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Refreshments
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