Twenty-two years ago today, a Finnish student by the name of Linus Torvalds sent an email that is now one of the iconic communications of the Internet era. In it, he told the comp.os.inix newsgroup – a newsgroup for all those using minix (from mini-Unix), a Unix-like computer operating system based on a microkernel architecture…
Month: August 2013
MongoDB Exorcises File Fragmentation Demons
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•This article shares with the development community the analysis that was performed at FireScope as it relates to the use of “usePowerOf2Sizes” and details how to enable this feature. It also covers both size and performance implications of this new capability. In sharing our analysis we hope that others may realize the same benefits that…