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		rhinoceraptor 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Love Letter to FreeBSD The E10k reminds me of Bryan Cantrill's story about the motivation for dtrace. Sun engineers were working day and night, trying to debug what seemed to be a Solaris kernel networking bug, on a benchmarking cluster of E10k machines. I won't spoil the end, but it's great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTVfAMRj-7E&t=2640s

wkat4242 4 days ago [–]

Yeah if Sun had continued to exist, what wonderful things would we have now!

But Oracle destroys everything it touches.

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