Posts tagged with: memory

Links of interest for 20 Jul 2009 - 15 Aug 2009: HTML5 Canvas and Audio Experiment - This is a brilliant display of some of the cool things you can do in HTML5 (Requires a browser that supports HTML5 like Firefox 3.5) How To Hijack 'Every iPhone In The World' - Oooops. Just as well I don't have an iPhone. Why does 1.6 beat 4.7? - BestPerf - People always forget the details, and it's often these details that competitors deliberately leave out too. Triple-Parity RAID-Z : Adam Leventhal's Weblog - ZFS has just got triple-parity RAID-Z support. Why? Alan... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 12 Dec 2008 - 24 Dec 2008: Sun boosts OpenSolaris on Atom - Oooo. When this becomes a reality without any hoop jumping, I may just have to get myself a small Atom based netbook. It's recession time and Sun has the best recession kool aid. - Who needs Oracle and BEA when you can have MySQL and Glassfish, and you can even use Ruby on Rails. I agree with the final comment in the article - Sun just isn#039;t selling the whole idea very well. I hope someone sees this post and takes it#039;s content... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 19 May 2008 - 19 Jun 2008: June 2008 | TOP500 Supercomputing Sites - Woohoo!!! Sun are finally back in the top 10. Anything But a Flash in the Pan - Sun's shares may be tanking at the moment, but you've got to read this to see where Sun is going. Once again, Sun is light years ahead of the competition. Now lets hope they market this and make a killing from it. (Yes I'm a shareholder). goosh.org - the unofficial google shell. - Google CLI for the hardcore techie Virtualization smackdown: Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6... Continue reading ►

After my initial thought of checking out Habari, and the encouraging comment from Skippy, I decided to go ahead and investigate Habari for myself, so I downloaded Habari 0.4.1 and took it for a spin. Continue reading ►

Well, after running with ALL options in the wp_options table set to no for autoload for about 3 days, I can say it doesn't really make much difference. If anything, there may be a slight decrease in performance, but nothing broke that I could see, and there really wasn't a significant difference in memory usage either. I've reverted back to the original settings. I'll have to dabble with the Wordpress code itself to see if there are any global variables that don't really need to be global at all. I've done some initial investigation and there are tons of stuff ... Continue reading ►

Well, in a bid to see if Wordpress really needs to preload all those options set to autoload, and to see if it makes a difference on the memory consumption I detailed earlier. I've set them all to "no" on this site so nothing is autoloaded. If you encounter any problems, please let me know. If I don't hear anything, I can only assume they don't have any adverse effect.

Did you know Wordpress is one major memory hog? No? Neither did I until I started getting "500 Internal Server" errors after having my hosting account at Joyent moved from FreeBSD to OpenSolaris, with it's resource management functionality being used to it's full extent. You'll be surprised to hear this appears to be a topic that isn't really discussed much out in the open. The closest indication of anyone else encountering memory issues with Wordpress is this this post on the Wordpress support forum. This is a great post and provides a good example that illustrates how much memory Wordpress ... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 21 Mar 2008 - 25 Mar 2008: Paper Enigma Machine - What a brilliant idea, and a great teaching tool too. Sun turns to lasers to speed up computer chips - Now this would be brilliant if Sun research proves to be a success. Sun's continually proving it is light years (excuse the pun) ahead of everyone else in the processor business and this is just another example. Australian WiMAX pioneer trashes technology as "miserable failure" - I wonder how many more people are going to come forward now and bring their problems to light. All... Continue reading ►