Issue #108 / Nov 2009

Professional users are always searching for an edge. Whether you work with Linux as a webmaster, programmer, system administrator, or security consultant, you know the best solution depends on finding the right tool for the job. We thought you might be interested in the following new products and updates.

This month we show you some tools for optimizing disks, speeding up web servers, and building custom parallel applications.

You can improve performance up to 20% by using the right parameters when you configure the filesystems on your RAID devices.

This practical caching tool can reduce the load on a web database server by as much as 90%.

The venerable LAM/MPI infrastructure is a stable and practical platform for building high-performance applications.