Monthly Archives: October 2009

Getting the serial terminal to work over IPMI on a Dell R410

By cesar | Published: October 19, 2009

As avid readers of the blog know, we use Hadoop a lot and talk about it quite a bit. We are in the process of expanding our Hadoop cluster and decided to go with the new Dell R410 1U machines.  From talks with other Hadoop users the sweet-spot is one spindle (drive) for every 2 [...]

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We Finally Ditched Ruby net/http

By | Published: October 2, 2009

After years of using the standard http implementation that comes with Ruby 1.8.6, we finally decided enough was enough. We’ve been aware of net/http’s serious inefficiency for a long time, but until now we didn’t feel it was hurting us enough to necessitate a change. What’s different? Recently we started doing a lot more crawling, [...]

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