The Mind of Boz

Holy renovations, Batman! Time was, the upstairs at Gelato Vero was old and decrepit and reeking of stale cigarettes. I did a full-on double take when I climbed the stairs 5 minutes ago! New tables and chairs. Outlets every 10 feet. New paint. I think they might have redone the floor (but that could be my imagination). And no ashtrays to be seen! Sweet.

Ok, back to work on strongWiki. Just wanted to share.

This week I get to load test our J2EE application with JMeter. I'm running JBoss on my Dad's old powerbook -- G3 500MHz, 512 MB RAM. I ran the tests with 100 concurrent users. Here's something you don't see all that often :

bosworth@rout:/usr/local/jboss/server/pws/log$ w
06:18:03 up 69 days, 21:14, 2 users, load average: 73.64, 42.36, 23.98
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
bosworth tty1 - 16Apr07 20:26 0.79s 0.65s -bash
bosworth pts/0 flee.lan 06:02 3.00s 0.65s 0.03s w

73.64! Yikes! No errors though....

Update: Here's the results with 300 concurrent :

bosworth@rout:/usr/local/jboss/server/pws/log$ w
06:53:09 up 69 days, 21:49, 2 users, load average: 17.90, 99.05, 114.98
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
bosworth tty1 - 16Apr07 21:01 0.79s 0.65s -bash
bosworth pts/0 flee.lan 06:02 1.00s 0.68s 0.03s w

Still no errors! Go little Mac, go!

This caught my fancy this morning. I wonder what Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend think of the update to their classic ?

With Apologies to The Who

Working on a new contract, I've been reviewing lots of online storage, and particularly online photo storage sites. SmugMug, Flickr, PhanFare, and SharpCast (among many others). It's been interesting seeing the various tradeoffs.

While I like Flickr (mostly because so many of my friends use it), SmugMug is pretty cool. Specifically, it has a much more fine-grained security policy (i.e. you can choose which friends get to view your pics).

Sharpcast has an interesting twist as well -- their client automatically syncs your images in the background. And if you do edits in their client, it will sync the edits as meta-data (takes less time and it's easier to reverse!).

In the end, this is work, and I'm testing. So here's my test photoset on Sharpcast, via their builtin sharing goobie, called PhotoWidget. Hope you like it (the pics are all from a tour of Magnolia Plantation Linds, Lish, Lish's parents, and I took in Charleston, SC in March).

For any of you who have been wondering what happened to the web version of my blog, well it's back. Rails was upgraded to 1.2.2 from 1.1.6 which is probably what broke things. Interestingly, RSS and posting via a client (ecto) worked fine. But the site didn't work. So now it does and all is well. Now let's see if I can get photos.mattbo.com going too...