From Computerworld: Hmmm… Breach of fiduciary duty? By board members? Nah … couldn’t happen … (yes, I am being sarcastic). But these shareholders allege that the price was too low. I have to disagree with this. The market suggested a significantly lower price than Oracle paid. Its probably not worth pushing that point too hard, and just let Sun go gentle into the good night. Put another way, stop looking at this gift horse too closely.

We run into some interesting things as a business. We have a good set of products showing best in class performance, and price performance, not to mention expansion capabilities and localized computing power. We have partners and resellers. We resell some of their product, providing feedback on opportunities, why we win or lose, and resellers, some of whom do the same for us. We try to stay out of non-differentiable markets.

* Mmmm nice shiny reboot button ... mmm wanna press it .... mmm .... oops ... there goes an hour of work ... (DOH!!!!) [#](http://twitter.com/sijoe/statuses/1729615374) * loading a customers system, over the network, from an iso image, on my laptop. 800 miles away from them. [#](http://twitter.com/sijoe/statuses/1729635255) Powered by Twitter Tools.

This is a very stressful benchmark for a server. A single bonnie++ run can generate user loads of 3-5 depending upon system configuration. And bonnie++ wants … no … insists on using 2x ram per run. So even if you run 8 at a time … and have, lets say … I dunno … 128 GB ram … 2x RAM is 256GB. 8 of these is about 2TB of space. Sure enough …

I might have a point about udev. A reasonable point. But the problem appears to be one or the other packages we installed. Retried it on my sacrificial machine here at home. No IB cards, but I was able to boot our stable kernel after installing the Mellanox OFED. I’d prefer to use our OFED build, and looks like I’ll be able to do that. By self inflicted I mean that I ran the installer script one too many times.

SCO’s chapter 11 looks like it will be turned into a chapter 7 liquidation. Litigation is rarely a rational business plan. You actually have to own assets that other people have purloined. If you don’t own the assets, and other haven’t stolen the assets you don’t own … its a little harder to claim you have been done wrong. Look for the assets they do own to be auctioned off to pay creditors.

This link pretty much covers it. This is a bankruptcy, an ordered re-ordering of a company. It is a well practiced procedure. Everyone will get hurt, though the non-secured creditors, by law, will get hurt worse, and the equity holders are basically wiped out. This is the way things go. Except for Chrysler. Where very specific non-secured creditors are actually getting ahead, and secured creditors are getting something else. Ouch. Rumor had it that HP had given Chrysler a sweetheart deal on their last cluster.

Udev is a /dev population tool. Enables devices to be hotplugged, and it adapts the system to the changes by running commands and scripts. Udev runs upon reboot. And in the background courtesy of libevent, it handles changes as they occur. Except, every now and then, something goes arwy with UDev. Like it hangs. So booting stops. Cold. With no way around it. Sort of our BSOD. Just as inconvenient. What you can do about it is fairly interesting.

* Burning in a 128GB 16 core JR for a customer. Getting 1.7 GB/s sustained large block reads, 1.4 GB/s sustained large block writes [#](http://twitter.com/sijoe/statuses/1691205092) Powered by Twitter Tools.

I had mentioned Chrysler’s bankruptcy previously. What was being reported, whereby the unsecured creditors were making out much better than the secured creditors, simply didn’t strike me as making sense. I thought the secured creditors would simply say no, and force the issue in court. Which appears to be what they are doing. The only “winners” if you can call them that, are the unions, who, as unsecured creditors, wound up with 55% of the company.