A few interesting links we’ve found recently …
You can reduce disk latency by using only the outer portion of your hard drive, with the obvious tradeoff of less available disk space. This is called “short stroking”, and is described in some detail in this article “Accelerate Your Hard Drive By Short Stroking”.
Networking folks might enjoy packetlife.net, a site whose goal is to “offer free, quality technical education to networkers all over the world, regardless of skill level or background”. The site has lots of content — including a forum, a blog, and much more — and is probably worth a bookmark.
If you are interested in memory management or buses, this article might be worth your time: NUMA-aware heap memory manager by Patryk Kaminski of AMD.
Links:
- Accelerate Your Hard Drive By Short Stroking at www.tomshardware.com
- packetlife.net
- NUMA-aware heap memory manager at developer.amd.com
