Www.ilsistemista.net - hardware & software benchmarks and analysis

2016-03-21

This is more or less a self-note, but I think it can be useful to others also. If you have any DELL server running Linux, chances are you installed the...

2015-02-04

Virtual machines storage performance is a hot topic – after all, one of the main problem when virtualizing many OS instances is to correctly size the...

2014-12-01

You probably know what LVM is: is Linux's Logical Volume Manager. Its role is to give you a flexible partition scheme for your ever-increasing disk space...

2014-08-25

NOTE: these information were originally provided in a post I wrote on the Joomla forum Many CentOS and Joomla users had a bad surprise lately: while...

2014-04-17

File compression is an old trick: one of the first (if not the first) program capable of compressing files was “SQ”, in the early 1980s, but...

2014-04-17

File compression is an old trick: one of the first (if not the first) program capable of compressing files was “SQ”, in the early 1980s, but the first...

2014-01-17

In the latest ten years, full-virtualization technologies gained much traction. While this sometime led to an excessive virtual machines proliferation...

2014-01-08

As you probably already know, there are basically two different schools in the virtualiztion champ: the para-virtualization one, where a modified guest...

2013-07-06

While SSD are increasingly used in both enterprise and consumer machines, classical mechanical-based HDD are here to stay at least 5-10 more years: their...

2013-06-27

As always, we want to check the current state and performance of Linux filesystems. This time is the turn of Fedora 18 x86_64, with kernel version 3....