Google Summer of Code 2008. BSD summary

FreeBSD Profiling, Kris Kennaway, MeetBSD 2008

Kris presents some tools to help evaluate performance on FreeBSD and help you figure out what to fix. He explains that performance is a relative term to the workload you are running. A high performance web server may mean nothing to you if your workload is a database.

One of the first things  he recommends is identifying the bottleneck. He lists several things that are common trouble areas and notes that the problem could be from an external source.

AsiaBSDCon 2008 Keynote - Hideki Sunahara - 25 years with BSD

Hideki began using BSD in 1983, back before TCP/IP was available.  They did development on TCP/IP to make it available on BSD in Japan.  In 1988 the WIDE project was started which is part of the Internet for Japan.