These are my links for June 9th through June 12th:

• Partition and Image Your Hard Drive with the System Rescue CD – Lifehacker –
• Skype Out – Pidgin In | Linux Journal –
• Duo Security: Two Factor Auth for the Masses « Cuddletech –
• The consumerization of IT: Why most vendors get it wrong, and why it’s a real challenge today. (Part 1) – Brian Madden – BrianMadden.com –
• Focus and Concentration – Minimizing Interruptions – Michael Sampson on Collaboration –
• FreeNAS vs OpenSolaris ZFS Benchmarks » ZFS Build –
• Bookmarks for June 8th through June 9th — Somewhere out there! – blog: Bookmarks for June 8th through June 9th: These are my links for June 8th through June 9th: Cheap GPUs Rend…

These are my links for May 24th through May 26th:

• Ads Implant False Memories | Wired Science | Wired.com – Ads Implant False Memories: Vivid commercials are incredibly good at tricking the hippocampus (a center of long-…
• Gabor hits Send: Organizing your Email into Folders is a Waste of Time – Organizing your Email into Folders is a Waste of Time: Here's a brand new paper from a conference in Vancouver l…
• iPad App Review: TallyTots | Gear Diary –
• Surprising results FC/NFS/iSCSI/FCoE… » Yellow Bricks –
• Get the Important Things Done Without Exhausting Your Mental Energy – Lifehacker –
• Bookmarks for May 21st through May 24th — Somewhere out there! – blog: Bookmarks for May 21st through May 24th: These are my links for May 21st through May 24th: Travel — Dragon…

These are my links for April 14th from 13:28 to 15:58:

• Re: Fastest Chunk Size w/XFS For MD Software RAID = 1024k –
• Filesystem performance tweaking with XFS on Linux@Everything2.com –
• Linux Not Fully Prepared for 4096-Byte Sector Hard Drives –
• Aligning an SSD on Linux –
• [linux-lvm] does alignment work out of the box now – md_chunk_alignment
• O+P Insights: Linux HW RAID Howto –
• ReliableRaid – Ubuntu Wiki –
• Mdadm-faq – Linux Raid Wiki – eg.
  "
  Array Slot : 2 (failed, 1, 0)
  Array State : Uu 1 failed
  "

These are my links for April 14th from 00:09 to 08:41:

• Red Hat’s Future Linux Desktop | ZDNet –
• Difference Between Samsung Galaxy S2 (Galaxy S II) and LG Optimus 2X | Difference Between | Samsung Galaxy S2 (Galaxy S II) vs LG Optimus 2X –
• Tegra 2 CPU and GPU benchmarks, Motorola Atrix 4G vs LG Optimus 2X – Android and Me –
• Mobile-review.com Preview of Samsung Galaxy S II i9100. Part 1 –
• Motorola Atrix 4G vs LG 2X Benchmarks –

Here  some results from testing I did in August 2009 on  KVM with the three different disk image drivers. First a single disk system running Ubuntu x64 9.04:

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From the vmware blog:

Conclusion

A 1vCPU Xeon X5500 series based Exchange Server VM can support 50% more users per core than a 2vCPU VM based on previous generation processors while maintaining the same level of performance in terms of Sendmail latency.  This is accomplished while the VM’s CPU utilization remains below 50%, allowing plenty of capacity for peaks in workload and making an FT VM practical for use with Exchange Server 2007.