Signals make up the plumbing in Unix-like operating environments, but they come with a significant number of pitfalls as a project grows. Learn about some of the alternative methods and mitigations to use from @unixchris: bit.ly/3LMNIrk
Thanks @lwnnet for the writeup on my work to improve printk() observability! This should be useful for anyone who needs to monitor and react to emerging issues, since it's not always feasible to have a stable metric or tracepoint. Just sent v7 upstream. lwn.net/Articles/85714…
Today I reached 100,000 rep on Unix/Linux @StackExchange. I owe a lot to it: it helped me get my first paid job when I had no degree or other credentials, and contributing has sharpened my skills dramatically over the years. Thanks @codinghorror, @spolsky, and other SE folks!
Chris Down, kernel engineer at Facebook, gave a 40 minute talk titled "Linux memory management at scale" at the #Arch#Linux 2020 Conference today. It's probably the most informative and also practical useful talks on this subject you'll see this year.
linuxreviews.org/Chris_Down,_Fa…
This weekend I'll be speaking at Arch Conf 2020 about our kernel memory management strategy at Facebook, and how it might apply to distribution maintainers and other Linux users. Hope to see you there! :-)
pretalx.com/arch-conf-onli…
Here's a fun project I've been working on that can alert you when resources on your desktop/laptop are becoming oversaturated, and allows you to take action *before* your system slows to a crawl. Feedback and suggestions welcome! :-)
github.com/cdown/psi-noti…
Taiji: Dynamic Traffic Engineering at Facebook
This is just utterly freaking NEXT LEVEL! 🤯
- Load balancing modeled as a constraint satisfaction problem to generate the optimal dynamic routing table
- Dynamic, connection aware routing based on Social Hash
- in prod >4 years
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