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Visual Studio 2005 Performance Explorer

From the “hard drive killer” department…

I was pretty excited to see that VS2005 has an embedded profiler – Micro$oft had to come up with a new name of course – “performance analyzer”. I threw HangTheDJ at it, going with all the defaults, and was served up with this gem before HangTheDJ even finished loading (as I happened to only have 8GB free at the time):

Performance automation returned the following error: : Error VSP1369 : Out of disk space: this scenario requires roughly 63073172 KB of disk space.

Yes, that says 63GB. Oh, to have the box of a Micro$oft developer…
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Comments | Wednesday, March 21, 2007

MythTV Updated

Burned by not following my own instructions, I forgot to reinstall ivtv the last time I updated the kernel on my MythTV box. It was down for a couple days until I re-figured out that I needed to reinstall both nvidia and ivtv following the kernel update. A MythTV update is so easy if you just follow the instructions. :>

Comments | Monday, March 19, 2007

What’s best? ADO.net vs. ADO vs. Access vs. MySQL vs. Oracle vs. SQL Server vs…

I’m reviewing database storage in my little app after several years of dealing with M$’s calculated disregard for older technology (DAO in this case). (continued…)

Comments (8) | Thursday, March 1, 2007

Bugzilla, quite a beast

I’ve played with bugzilla enough to know that it’s an unruly beast, with lots of configuration requirements. FINALLY, it’s able to use mod_perl, alleviating my serious concerns about page display time, but according to the guy who coded the mod_perl compatibility…

mod_perl support in Bugzilla can take up a HUGE amount of RAM. You could be looking at 30MB per httpd child, easily. Basically, you just need a lot of RAM. The more RAM you can get, the better. mod_perl is basically trading RAM for speed. At least 2GB total system RAM is recommended for running Bugzilla under mod_perl.

C’mon! All I want to do is track a few bugs. So… still looking for the best open-source solution, and in the meantime, using eGroupware’s simple TTS system – even though it’s deprecated but the replacement app isn’t ready yet, sigh. At least it doesn’t crush my server. But maybe I’ll set up bugzilla anyway, just for fun… gotta love those huge open-source apps!

UPDATE: PSI uses [flyspray!], which doesn’t look bad. PHP gittinerdun, once again.

Comments | Friday, February 16, 2007

The latest boost tweaks

I’m updating my boost installations to latest CVS, here are a couple quick notes. In addition, instead of having blog chatter all over the place, I’ll consolidate my boost installation notes onto my wiki, see here. (continued…)