Strange SATA Disk PerformanceStrange SATA Disk Performance
Below is a GNUPlot graph of ZCAV output from a 250G SATA disk. The disk has something wrong with it (other disks of the same brand in machines of the[...]
Category: Benchmark
paper about ZCAVpaper about ZCAV
This paper by Rodney Van Meter about ZCAV (Zoned Constant Angular Velocity) in hard drives is very interesting. It predates my work by about four years and includes some interesting[...]
new release of postalnew release of postal
Today I have released a significant new version of my mail server benchmark Postal! The list of changes is below: Added new program bhm to listen on port 25 and[...]
Ruxcon and SLUGRuxcon and SLUG
This weekend I was in Sydney for Ruxcon. Ruxcon is a computer security conference with a focus on penetration testing and related skills. The presentation on Unusual Bugs by Ilya[...]