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		<title>MySQL and hardware information</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheeri Cabral</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People often ask &#8220;what&#8217;s the best hardware to run a database on?&#8221; And the answer, of course, is &#8220;it depends&#8221;. With MySQL, though, you can get good performance out of almost any hardware. If you need *great* performance, and you have active databases with a large data set, here are some statistics on real life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Exactly is Swappiness?</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gerry Narvaja</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an issue that keeps rearing its ugly head over and over again, and since it greatly affects performance, it is most important that DBAs of any DMBS running on Linux come to grips with it. So I decided to do some research and try different settings on my notebook. Here are my findings. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liveblogging: Automated System Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheeri Cabral</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Usenix 2008 &#8211; Automated System Management, by Ã†leen Frisch of Exponential Consulting (and numerous books) What is automation? generic scripts with cron,at Problem: overlap of effort So folks developed automation systems. General automation tools are around: cfengine, puppet, cfg2 These are general &#8212; files, directories, etc. Don&#8217;t need to use chmod and chown and underlying [...]]]></description>
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