Posts in category Murray’s FreeBSD Notes

Updated TCP Proposals and FreeBSD

Feb 04, 2012 ~ Written by Murray Stokely
Updated TCP Proposals and FreeBSD There are a number of proposals for improving TCP performance coming out of Google that have some implications for FreeBSD. These proposals have taken the form of a group of IETF proposals, RFCs, patches to the Linux kernel, and research publications. A nice summary of the different initiatives is available from Lets Make TCP Faster on the [...]
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Two New Videos: SuperPages and NanoBS...

Aug 19, 2011 ~ Written by Murray Stokely
Two New Videos: SuperPages and NanoBSD Thanks to Kirk McKusick, I\'m happy to announce two new fully edited high quality videos from BSDCan 2011 in the BSD Conferences YouTube channel. I\'ve also created a new playlist for the BSDCan 2011 videos. The first talk is \"Superpages in FreeBSD\" by McKusick, and it describes the addition of superpage support to the FreeBSD 8 kernel on [...]
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Luigi Talks Netmap on Google Tech Tal...

Aug 19, 2011 ~ Written by Murray Stokely
Luigi Talks Netmap on Google Tech Talks Channel Last week, Luigi Rizzo visited Google and gave a talk on high-speed networking with Netmap. This was Luigi\'s second talk at Google and the third talk about FreeBSD in the Google Tech Talks YouTube channel. We also have more than 100 videos available in the BSD Conferences channel.
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FreeBSD at GSoC Mentor Summit

Oct 25, 2010 ~ Written by Murray Stokely
FreeBSD at GSoC Mentor Summit As in previous years, Google held a \"Mentor Summit\" to bring together representatives from the open source organizations that participated in the Google Summer of Code to share experiences of what worked, what didn\'t, and generally learn from each other about shepherding students through the program. The mentor summit is always run Unconf [...]
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FreeBSD at GSoC Mentor Summit

Oct 25, 2010 ~ Written by Murray Stokely
FreeBSD at GSoC Mentor Summit As in previous years, Google held a \"Mentor Summit\" to bring together representatives from the open source organizations that participated in the Google Summer of Code to share experiences of what worked, what didn\'t, and generally learn from each other about shepherding students through the program. The mentor summit is always run Unconf [...]
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FreeBSD Summer of Code Students Highl...

Sep 15, 2010 ~ Written by Murray Stokely
FreeBSD Summer of Code Students Highlighted on Google Blog As in previous years, I\'ve posted a summary of FreeBSD Project participation in Google Summer of Code on the Google Open Source Blog.By my count we have now mentored at least 117 students on FreeBSD development through this program. As in previous years it was tough to identify a few student projects to highlight given how much (Read more. [...]
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FreeBSD Summer of Code Students Highl...

Sep 15, 2010 ~ Written by Murray Stokely
FreeBSD Summer of Code Students Highlighted on Google Blog As in previous years, I\'ve posted a summary of FreeBSD Project participation in Google Summer of Code on the Google Open Source Blog.By my count we have now mentored at least 117 students on FreeBSD development through this program. As in previous years it was tough to identify a few student projects to highlight given how much (Read more. [...]
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MeetBSD 2010 Videos in HD on YouTube

Aug 20, 2010 ~ Written by Murray Stokely
MeetBSD 2010 Videos in HD on YouTube Thanks to Tomasz Dudzisz we now have 14 videos from MeetBSD 2010 in Poland. Tomasz has created a playlist for the BSD Conferences YouTube channel, or you can select a video directly from the list below. These videos are all in HD quality and most are in English and a few are in Polish. Thanks Tomasz and the MeetBSD organizers (Read more.. [...]
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MeetBSD 2010 Videos in HD on YouTube

Aug 20, 2010 ~ Written by Murray Stokely
MeetBSD 2010 Videos in HD on YouTube Thanks to Tomasz Dudzisz we now have 14 videos from MeetBSD 2010 in Poland. Tomasz has created a playlist for the BSD Conferences YouTube channel, or you can select a video directly from the list below. These videos are all in HD quality and most are in English and a few are in Polish. Thanks Tomasz and the MeetBSD organizers (Read more.. [...]
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BSDCan on Google’s Open Source ...

Aug 11, 2010 ~ Written by Murray Stokely
BSDCan on Google’s Open Source Blog A coworker of mine, Kirk Russell, just posted an excellent summary of BSDCan through the years on the Google Open Source Blog.I wasn\'t able to make it to BSDCan this year due to family commitments, but I did make it to another open source conference later this summer that I also wrote about on Google\'s open source (Read more...)
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BSDCan on Google’s Open Source ...

Aug 11, 2010 ~ Written by Murray Stokely
BSDCan on Google’s Open Source Blog A coworker of mine, Kirk Russell, just posted an excellent summary of BSDCan through the years on the Google Open Source Blog.I wasn\'t able to make it to BSDCan this year due to family commitments, but I did make it to another open source conference later this summer that I also wrote about on Google\'s open source (Read more...)
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Kirk McKusick on Journaling Soft Upda...

May 30, 2010 ~ Written by Murray Stokely
Kirk McKusick on Journaling Soft Updates in FreeBSD Dr. Kirk McKusick has produced a high quality recording of his talk on Journaled Soft-Updates at BSDCan 2010. This is the 92nd BSD conference video in the BSD Conferences YouTube channel.
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Kirk McKusick on Journaling Soft Upda...

May 30, 2010 ~ Written by Murray Stokely
Kirk McKusick on Journaling Soft Updates in FreeBSD Dr. Kirk McKusick has produced a high quality recording of his talk on Journaled Soft-Updates at BSDCan 2010. This is the 92nd BSD conference video in the BSD Conferences YouTube channel.
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AsiaBSDCon 2010 Videos

May 30, 2010 ~ Written by Murray Stokely
AsiaBSDCon 2010 Videos The videos from AsiaBSDCon 2010 are now available on the BSD Conferences YouTube channel. The full list of 17 AsiaBSDCon videos includes:George Neville-Neil: Hardware Performance Monitoring Counters on non-X86 ArchitecturesMassimiliano Stucchi: BSD in the routing industryMarco Peereboom: Softraid: OpenBSD\'s virtual HBA, with benefitsBrooks [...]
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AsiaBSDCon 2010 Videos

May 30, 2010 ~ Written by Murray Stokely
AsiaBSDCon 2010 Videos The videos from AsiaBSDCon 2010 are now available on the BSD Conferences YouTube channel. The full list of 17 AsiaBSDCon videos includes:George Neville-Neil: Hardware Performance Monitoring Counters on non-X86 ArchitecturesMassimiliano Stucchi: BSD in the routing industryMarco Peereboom: Softraid: OpenBSD\'s virtual HBA, with benefitsBrooks [...]
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FreeBSD Tech Talk @ Google

Apr 07, 2010 ~ Written by Murray Stokely
FreeBSD Tech Talk @ Google Long time FreeBSD developer Luigi Rizzo from the University of Pisa came to Google last week to visit with Sam Leffler and me, and he agreed to give a talk about some of his work on link emulation and packet scheduling.This marks the second FreeBSD video in the Google Tech Talks channel in addition to the 70+ videos in (Read more...)
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FreeBSD Tech Talk @ Google

Apr 07, 2010 ~ Written by Murray Stokely
FreeBSD Tech Talk @ Google Long time FreeBSD developer Luigi Rizzo from the University of Pisa came to Google last week to visit with Sam Leffler and me, and he agreed to give a talk about some of his work on link emulation and packet scheduling.This marks the second FreeBSD video in the Google Tech Talks channel in addition to the 70+ videos in (Read more...)
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Improved Conference Captions from Ama...

Feb 21, 2010 ~ Written by Murray Stokely
Improved Conference Captions from Amazon Mechanical Turk (2) After my initial experiments last month, I applied to the FreeBSD Foundation for funds to pay for additional human editing of the YouTube machine generated transcripts. The screenshot on the left shows an example HIT (Human Intelligence Task) available on Amazon Mechanical Turk.The task description on the left is based on a template I create [...]
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Improved Conference Captions from Ama...

Feb 21, 2010 ~ Written by Murray Stokely
Improved Conference Captions from Amazon Mechanical Turk (2) After my initial experiments last month, I applied to the FreeBSD Foundation for funds to pay for additional human editing of the YouTube machine generated transcripts. The screenshot on the left shows an example HIT (Human Intelligence Task) available on Amazon Mechanical Turk.The task description on the left is based on a template I create [...]
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Improved Conference Captions from Ama...

Jan 11, 2010 ~ Written by Murray Stokely
Improved Conference Captions from Amazon Mechanical Turk Just wanted to send a quick note that three of the popular videos from the BSD Conferences YouTube channel have been updated with human-edited English language caption files. These offer a significant improvement over the machine generated captions I wrote about last month.The following videos have been updated:PC-BSD, Matt Olander, AsiaBSDC [...]
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