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Tag: george neville-neil
A Few FreeBSD Core Team Members
Interview with a few of the FreeBSD Core Team members at BSDCan 2009: Robert Watson, Brooks Davis, Hiroki Sato, Philip Paeps, and George V. Neville-Neil. We talk about the recent 7.2 release, and what is coming for 8.
Source: bsdtalk
Added: 24 May 2009
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, bsdcan, freebsd core team, robert watson, brooks davis, hiroki sato, philip paeps, george neville-neil
Ogg version (38 minutes), MP3 version (18 Mb, 38 minutes)
Live from NYCBSDCon Saturday
A copy of Saturday's live stream from NYCBSDCon 2008. I wander around during lunch talking to random people. Voices include Jason Dixon, Pawel Jakub Dawidek, Kris Moore, Matt Olander, George Neville-Neil, Phillip Coblentz, and Jason Wright.
Source: bsdtalk
Added: 12 October 2008
Tags: bsdtalk, nycbsdcon2008, nycbsdcon, interview, jason dixon, pawel jakub dawidek, kris more, matt olander, george neville-neil, phillip coblentz, jason wright
Ogg version (40 minutes), MP3 version (18 Mb, 40 minutes)
AsiaBSDCon Update with Hiroki Sato and George Neville-Neil
A quick update on AsiaBSDCon 2008 with Hiroki Sato and George Neville-Neil. More information at http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/.
Source: bsdtalk
Added: 23 October 2007
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, asiabsdcon, hiroki sato, george neville-neil
Ogg version (10 minutes), MP3 version (5 Mb, 10 minutes)
Fast IPSec with George Neville-Neil
Interview with George Neville-Neil about Fast IPSec.
Source: bsdtalk
Added: 16 July 2007
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, ipsec, george neville-neil
Ogg version (14 minutes), MP3 version (7 Mb, 14 minutes)
A Few FreeBSD Core Team Members
An interview with a few of the FreeBSD Core Team members: Brooks Davis, Warner Losh, George V. Neville-Neil, Hiroki Sato, and Robert Watson. The interview was recorded at BSDCan in Ottawa, Cananda.
Source: bsdtalk
Added: 26 May 2007
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, freebsd core, brooks davis, warner losh, george neville-neil, hiroki sato, robert watson
Ogg version (35 minutes), MP3 version (16 Mb, 35 minutes)
George Neville-Neil and Using VMs for Development
George Neville-Neil and Using VMs for Development. See http://blogs.freebsdish.org/gnn for more information.
Source: bsdtalk
Added: 26 April 2007
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, virtual machines, george neville-neil
Ogg version (12 minutes), MP3 version (6 Mb, 12 minutes)
FreeBSD Developer George Neville-Neil
Interview with FreeBSD developer George Neville-Neil. We talk about the packet construction set and the packet debugger.
Source: bsdtalk
Added: 27 February 2007
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, freebsd, packet construction set, george neville-neil
Ogg version (19 minutes), MP3 version (10 Mb, 19 minutes)
AsiaBSDCon PC Chair George Neville-Neil
Interview with AsiaBSDCon 2007 Program Committee Chair George Neville-Neil.
Source: bsdtalk
Added: 09 February 2007
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2007, george neville-neil
Ogg version (14 minutes), MP3 version (7 Mb, 14 minutes)
Interview with Hiroki Sato and George Neville-Neil from AsiaBSDCon
Interview with Hiroki Sato and George Neville-Neil from AsiaBSDCon. More info at http://2006.asiabsdcon.org/.
Source: bsdtalk
Added: 06 October 2006
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2006, hiroki sao, george neville-neil
Ogg version (13 minutes), MP3 version (6 Mb, 13 minutes)
EuroBSDCon 2008 - George Neville-Neil - Multicast Performance in FreeBSD
In the past ten years most of the research in network protocols has gone into TCP, leaving UDP to languish as a local configuration protocol. While the majority of Internet traffic is TCP, UDP remains the only IP protocol that works over multicast and as such has some specific, and interesting uses in some areas of computing. In 2008 we undertook a study of the performance of UDP multicast on both 1Gbps and 10Gbps Ethernet networks in order to see if changing the physical layer of the network would give a linear decrease in packet latency. To measure the possible gains we developed a new network protocol test program, mctest, which is capable of recording packet round trip times from many hosts simultaneously and which we believe accurately represents how many environments use multicast. The mctest program has been integrated into FreeBSD and is now being used to verify the proper operation of multicast on various pieces of 10Gbps hardware.
Source: EuroBSDCon
Added: 22 October 2008
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, multicast, freebsd, george neville-neil
MP3 (1 byte, 39 minutes), OGG (1 byte, 39 minutes), PDF (1 byte, n pages)
EuroBSDCon 2008 Keynote - George Neville-Neil - Thinking about thinking code
EuroBSDCon 2008 Keynote - George Neville-Neil - Thinking about thinking code
Source: EuroBSDCon
Added: 22 October 2008
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, george neville-neil
MP3 (1 byte, 37 minutes), OGG (1 byte, 37 minutes), PDF (1 byte, n pages)
EuroBSDCon 2008 - George Neville-Neil - Four years of summer of code
The Google Summer of Code is a program designed to provide students with real world experience contributing to open source projects during the summer break in university studies. Each year Google selects a number of open source projects to act as mentoring organizations. Students are invited to submit project proposals for the open source projects that are most interesting to them. FreeBSD was one of the projects selected to participate in the inaugural Summer of Code in 2005 and we have participated each year since then. Over the past 4 years a total of 79 students have participated in the program and it has become a very significant source of new committers to FreeBSD. This talk will examine in detail the selection criteria for projects, the impact that successful projects have had, and some suggestions for how we can better leverage this program in the future.
Source: EuroBSDCon
Added: 22 October 2008
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, google soc, george neville-neil
MP3 (1 byte, 27 minutes), OGG (1 byte, 27 minutes), PDF (1 byte, n pages)
EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers
Source: EuroBSDCon
Added: 10 October 2007
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, videos
Sam Smith - Fighting "Technical fires" (147 Mb), Pierre Yves Ritschard - Load Balancing (219 Mb), Claudio Jeker - Routing on OpenBSD (394 Mb), Brooks Davis - Using FreeBSD to Promote Open Source Development Methods (92 Mb), Antti Kantee - ReFUSE: Userspace FUSE Reimplementation Using puffs (197 Mb), Gregers Petersen - Open Source - is it something new? (285 Mb), Stephen Borrill - Building products with NetBSD - thin-clients (364 Mb), Pawel Jakub - FreeBSD/ZFS - last word in operating/file systems (203 Mb), George Neville-Neil - Network Protocol Testing in FreeBSD and in General (271 Kb), Soren Straarup - An ARM from shoulder to hand (141 Mb), Simon L Nielsen - The FreeBSD Security Officer function (195 Kb), Steven Murdoch - Hot or Not: Fingerprinting hosts through clock skew (235 Mb), Yvan VanHullebus - NETASQ and BSD: a success story (382 Mb), Ryan Bickhart - Transparent TCP-to-SCTP Translation Shim Layer (376 Mb), John P Hartmann - Real Men's Pipes - When UNIX meets the mainframe mindset (315 Mb), Sam Leffler - Long Distance Wireless (for Emerging Regions) (248 Mb), Kirk Mckusick - A Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem (251 Mb)
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers
Source: EuroBSDCon
Added: 05 October 2007
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, papers
Pawel Jakub - FreeBSD/ZFS - last word in operating/file systems (337 Kb), Stephen Borrill - Building products with NetBSD - thin-clients (407 Kb), John P Hartmann - CMS Pipelines Explained (118 Kb), Soren Straarup - An ARM from shoulder to hand (307 Kb), Brooks Davis - Building clusters with FreeBSD (2.2 Mb), Steven Murdoch - Hot or Not: Fingerprinting hosts through clock skew (6.1 Mb), Brooks Davis - Using FreeBSD to Promote Open Source Development Methods (989 Kb), Sam Leffler - Long Distance Wireless (for Emerging Regions) (19 Mb), Antti Kantee - ReFUSE: Userspace FUSE Reimplementation Using puffs (102 Kb), Yvan VanHullebus - NETASQ and BSD: a success story (2.4 Mb), Ryan Bickhart - Transparent TCP-to-SCTP Translation Shim Layer (692 Kb), Pierre Yves Ritschard - Load Balancing (23 Kb), John P Hartmann - Real Men's Pipes - When UNIX meets the mainframe mindset (382 Kb), Claudio Jeker - Routing on OpenBSD (1.3 Mb), Marc Balmer - Supporting Radio Clocks in OpenBSD (304 Kb), Peter Hansteen - Firewalling with OpenBSD's PF packet filter (531 Kb), Simon L Nielsen - The FreeBSD Security Officer function (251 Kb), Robert Watson - FreeBSD Advanced Security Features (152 Kb), Ryan Bickhart - Transparent TCP-to-SCTP Translation Shim Layer (491 Kb), Kirk Mckusick - A Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem (145 Kb), George Neville-Neil - Network Protocol Testing in FreeBSD and in General (251 Kb), Sam Smith - Fighting "Technical fires" (1.4 Mb), Marko Zec - Network stack virtualization for FreeBSD 7.0 (401 Kb), Isaac Levy - FreeBSD jail(8) Overview, the Secure Virtual Server (120 Mb)
Hardware Performance Monitoring Counters
Many modern CPUs provide on chip counters for performance events such as retiring instructions and cache misses. The hwpmc driver and libraries in FreeBSD give systems administrators and programmers access to APIs which make it possible to measure performance without modifying source code and with minimal intrusion into application execution. This talk will be a brief introduction to HWPMC, and how to use it. Bio: George Neville-Neil is the co-author with Kirk McKusick of The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System. He works on networking an operating systems for fun and profit.
Source: New York City *BSD User Group
Added: 16 November 2008
Tags: nycbug, presentation, george neville-neil, counters
MP3 version (4 Mb)
Network Protocol Development Tools and Techniques for FreeBSD (211 Mb)
Our Topic: Network Protocol Development Tools and Techniques for FreeBSD Our Speaker: George Neville-Neil, co-author of the "Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System" "daemon" book. Our Topic: While computers have gotten faster and more powerful the tools we use to develop network protocols, such as TCP, UDP, IPv4 and IPv6 have not. Most network protocols are developed, in C, in the kernel, and require a lot of work to test. Over the past year or so I have been working with virtual machines, a couple of pieces of open source software, and begun developing a library for use in protocol testing. This talk will cover three topics: Developing and testing kernel code with Virtual Machines Finding good tests for networking code Packet Construction Set (PCS) a new library for writing protocol tests
Source: Bay Area FreeBSD User Group
Added: 10 August 2006
Tags: bafug, presentation, freebsd, packet construction set, george neville-neil
George Neville-Neil - Thinking about thinking in code
Thinking about thinking in code Proposed keynote talk This is not a talk that's specific to any BSD but is a more general talk about how we think about coding and how our thinking changes the way we code. I compare how we built systems to how other industries build their products and talk about what we can learn from how we work and from how others work as well.
Source: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Added: 25 May 2009
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, keynote, bsd, george neville-neil
Slides (4.0 Mb, 137 pages)
George Neville-Neil - Understanding and Tuning SCHED_ULE
Understanding and Tuning SCHED_ULE With the advent of widespread SMP and multicore CPU architectures it was necessary to implement a new scheduler in the FreeBSD operating system. The SCHEDULE scheduler was added for the 5 series of FreeBSD releases and has now matured to the point where it is the default scheduler in the 7.1 release. While scheduling processes was a difficult enough task in the uniprocessor world, moving to multiple processors, and multiple cores, has significantly increased the number of problems that await engineers who wish to squeeze every last ounce of performance out of their system. This talk will cover the basic design of SCHEDULE and focus a great deal of attention on how to tune the scheduler for different workloads, using the sysctl interfaces that have been provided for that purpose. Understanding and tuning a scheduler used to be done only by operating systems designers and perhaps a small minority of engineers focusing on esoteric high performance systems. With the advent of widespread multi-processor and multi-core architectures it has become necessary for more users and administrators to decide how to tune their systems for the best performance. The SCHEDULE scheduler in FreeBSD provides a set of sysctl interfaces for tuning the scheduler at run time, but in order to use these interfaces effectively the scheduling process must first be understood. This presentation will give an overview of how SCHEDULE works and then will show several examples of tuning the system with the interfaces provided. The goal of modifying the scheduler's parameters is to change the overall performance of programs on the system. One of the first problems presented to the person who wants to tune the scheduler is how to measure the effects of their changes. Simply tweaking the parameters and hoping that that will help is not going to lead to good results. In our recent experiments we have used the top(1) program to measure our results.
Source: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Added: 25 May 2009
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, presentation, freebsd, sched_ule, george neville-neil
Slides (228 Kb, 29 pages)
George Neville-Neil - Networking from the Bottom Up: Device Drivers
Networking from the Bottom Up: Device Drivers. In this tutorial I will describe how to write and maintain network drivers in FreeBSD and use the example of the Intel Gigabit Ethernet driver (igb) throughout the course. Students will learn the basic data structures and APIs necessary to implement a network driver in FreeBSD. The tutorial is general enough that it can be applied to other BSDs, and likely to other embedded and UNIX like systems while being specific enough that given a device and a manual the student should be able to develop a working driver on their own. This is the first of a series of lectures on network that I am developing over the next year or so.
Source: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
Added: 25 May 2009
Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, tutorial, device drivers, george neville-neil
PDF file (480 Kb, 68 pages)