What has two quad core 3GHz 64bit CPUs, sixteen gigs of RAM and makes the Socorro users happy? That would be the new hardware that the Socorro system moved to during a six hour operation on Thursday night. The new … Continue reading
Let’s say we’ve got some twenty-five million chunks of data ranging in size from one K to several meg. Let’s also say that we only rarely ever need to access this data, but when we do, we need it fast. … Continue reading
How big can a table in a database get? Well, the answer varies by database, for most modern databases, the answer is “really huge”. That’s what we’ve going in Socorro, some honking big tables. Queries can get slow on big … Continue reading
Three weeks ago today, we deployed the new Socorro file system into production. It was the first in in a series of engineered improvements to the Socorro codebase. By “engineered”, I mean that it was the first major improvement to … Continue reading
As the scope and depth of the Socorro/Breakpad project has evolved in the last nine months, the most nonvolatile requirement of the project has been a file system as the initial server side storage for submitted crash dumps. The file … Continue reading
