George Georgovassilis writes about information technology architecture
Ubuntu 11.10 does already a good job at starting faster, but if you've read one of my previous posts on Ubuntu startup time [1] then you know that there is always something to be tweaked for better or for worse. Part of the process is to defer services that are not needed immediately (i.e. printing) … Continue reading The "exe" process on slow Ubuntu bootchart
As I am continuing my efforts to improve Ubuntu boot time [1] I started noticing that bootchart [2] would list several processes twice and the boot logs would complain that all mountpoints were busy or had been mounted already. A closer inspection of the logs reveals that indeed several scripts were being executed twice: the … Continue reading Ubuntu upstart scripts executed twice during boot
Over the course of my involvement [1] in my Indonesian company's website, the question of how to design a website to deal with slow and bad network links presented itself over several occasions as most of our users surf either over a mobile connection or a similarly dimensioned fixed line. While optimizing design and resources … Continue reading The impact of network packet loss on HTTP latency
During an optimisation cycle for Bazarooma aimed at further reducing latencies I started experimenting with Firefox' HTTP pipelining [1] feature, which is disabled by default. This can be enabled by typing about:config in the URL bar, locating the network.http.pipelining entry and setting it to true. While Firebug did not report any measurable improvement, it turned … Continue reading HTTP pipelining, Tomcat 7 and Firefox 4
Just because I have nothing else to do on a lazy, rainy Sunday morning I thought it would be fun to see how much I can slash off the startup time for Ubuntu 11.04 64Bit on my HP Probook 4720s. The OS boots from a class 6 SD card (16 Mbyte/sec read) and 6 GB … Continue reading Speeding up Ubuntu 11.04 boot time
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