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For some background - postgresql performs best with ~2 connections per core. Having more than this number of connections will just create contention and significantly slow down the benchmark result. Greg Lowe A formula which has held up pretty well across a lot of benchmarks for years is that for optimal throughput the number of active connections should be somewhere near (core_count * 2) + effective_spindle_count. wiki. [Read More]

It meant event-poll and also was edge-triggered.

Davide Libenzi

Our choices are all chaos – either chaos harnessed by a transparent, self-correcting social process, or chaos hidden and denied and eating at the roots of our software.

Eric Raymond

(previously noted)

I use test cases turned in by students against all other students. Students don’t seem to care much about developing defensive test cases, but they unleash hell when it comes to sandbagging their classmates.

Matt Might

The more you have CPUs the higher you scale, to the point that software execution should complete before you start writing that software (assuming you have around -1024 CPUs).

(lkml)

Teaching my older son lisp (Racket). Working on a Pokemon battle simulator.

John Carmack