MarkR

MarkR has asked 7 questions and find answers to 345 problems.

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Experienced developer; I use stuff like MySQL, perl, work on pretty large systems. If you are a spam bot you might like to email me on [email protected] - otherwise, use my normal address.

MarkR questions

Does a socket shutdown call from another thread always make blocking recv() threads wake up?
What load-balancing system do you use in production? What do you think of it?
How can I simulate a failed disk during testing?
How do I choose a multicast address for my application's use?

MarkR answers

Abort a slow flush to disk after write?
Should I be using triggers to connect two related but heavily denormalized tables?
Linux: packets reordering simulation
Perl Threads faster than Sequentially processing?
MySQL: storing several boolean values in one column. One tinyint(4) -vs- several tinyint(4)
Python MySQLdb: Update if exists, else insert
how can i make the server listen for TCP and UDP?
Efficient MySQL schema with partitioning for huge dataset (7.300.000.000 rows and roughly 80 GB of data)
CakePHP High-Availability Server Farm setup
Can index creation use existing indexes?