UUASC-LA Program Tonight !!

I was told to relay this as it is a Linux talk tonight, feel free to 
distribute to LUGs that I have missed.  The room holds about 60, don't be 
late, it is a pain to get up after 7PM, plus this speaker fills the room. 
-Ralf

                  UUASC-LA
Unix Users Association of Southern California
          Los Angeles County Chapter
              June 2006 Meeting
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       Extreme Linux Performance Tuning

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               Tonight, 7-9 pm

            Sun Microsystems, Inc.
        222 N. Sepulveda in El Segundo
         10th Floor -- Martinique Room

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IMPORT NOTICE:   DUE TO CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOND OUR CONTROL, THE JUNE MEETING OF
UUASC-LA WILL BE HELD ON THE SECOND THURSDAY OF THE MONTH. PLEASE MAKE A NOTE
OF THE CHANGE. We apologize for the inconvenience. Thank you.


A longtime favorite speaker of UUASC who doubled as an Solaris instructor
specializing in security returns but this time wearing a new hat and a
 penguin t-shirt after making a major career change.

At tonight's meeting of UUASC-LA, Darren Hoch will share some Linux
 performance tuning insight. His talk is based on some pain-staking lessons
 learned from R&D sessions and customer issues concerning his new company's
 enterprise email platform.

Darren will cover the basics of how virtual memory, CPU, network, and disks
all rely on each other. He will explain outputs from vmstat, iostat, mpstat,
and sar to quickly find performance bottlenecks on production systems. He
 will finish his talk by demonstrating how he tuned the application
 configuration files and OS (sysctl and /proc) to optimize and obtain
 measureable performance gains.

Darren is a senior technical consultant and resident Linux geek for
 StrongMail Systems, an enterprise email application ISV based in San Jose.
 Before StrongMail, Darren worked for Accenture and Sun
Microsystems, and wrote a five-day course, "Enterprise Intrusion Analysis".

After the meeting, you are invited to mingle with many of the chapter members
at UUASC-LA's favorite dining and drinking spot. Details will be presented at
the meeting.

WARNING: People may take photographs of UUASC-LA meetings and social events.
If someone is absolutely opposed to having his or her photograph taken, that
person needs to please speak with the photographer.

Warning to photographers: You must have a person's permission to post
photographs in any public manner.

Directions:

>From the South via Interstate 405:

Exit at El Segundo Blvd. Turn left and proceed approximately three miles to
the intersection of El Segundo Blvd. and Sepulveda. Turn right (Northbound),
stay in the right lane. Skip to "Northbound on Sepulveda", below.

>From the North via Interstate 405:

Exit at El Segundo Blvd. Turn left onto La Cienega Blvd. (get into the right
lane). Turn right at El Segundo Blvd and proceed approximately three miles
tothe intersection of El Segundo Blvd and Sepulveda. Turn right (Northbound),
stay in the right lane.

Northbound on Sepulveda:

You should now be proceeding nortbound, in the right lane along Sepulveda
Blvd. The signal at the next intersection (Sepulveda/Grand) is an important
landmark. The meeting venue is in the Oracle building (222 Sepulveda) on the
Southeast corner, just before the intersection, on the right. The Free
 Parking is *across* the intersection, in the Northeast corner on the right.

Parking:

Continue northbound across the intersection, turn into the first driveway on
the right, known as the LAX Business Park. Go through the raised gates, turn
right, find  a parking space close to the traffic signal.

Building:

Short stairs lead from the raised parking lot to the sidewalk. Walk across
 the intersection heading south. The UUASC meeting venue (Sun Microsystems
 office) is in the "Oracle" building, closest to the southeast corner of the
Sepulveda/Grand intersection. Entrances are located on the Oracle building's
North and South sides. However, after business hours, the North side is
closed; go to the South entrance.  If the doors are locked here, the security
guard
can open it; politely knock on the door to get their attention.

Enter and sign in, inform the guard that you want to go to the Sun
Microsystems offices on the 10th floor. That means the elevators to the
 right, and the guard will likely need to activate the elevator for you. The
 UUASC meeting is in Sun's offices on the 10th floor.

For any questions on how to get there, call 310-607-2400. However, that
 number won't be available after business hours (5:30). After that time, call
 310-607-2560.

UUASC wants to especially thank member Matt Ingenthron of Sun for his
excellent hospitality.  And, UUASC wants to thank our host, Sun Microsystems,
for the continued support of our meetings.

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UUASC is for all persons using UNIX either personally or professionally, or
interested in learning more about UNIX. We recognize all varieties of UNIX,
including (without prejudice) SCO, Linux, SVr4, Solaris, AIX, HP/UX, and BSD.
This is a good place to meet others with similar interests and broaden your
skills and knowledge.

There are two UUASC chapters serving Los Angeles and Orange Counties. Meeting
locations for each chapter are detailed at our web site,
 http://www.uuasc.org. Please visit our web site.

There are no dues or other membership requirements. More than 300 persons
receive our monthly meeting announcements. Meeting attendance varies to as
high as 75. Hershel Remer serves as UUASC president and leads a team of
volunteers who together manage the club. More volunteers are always needed.

Los Angeles County Chapter meetings are normally held the first Thursday of
each month from 7 to 9 pm ( or whenever we feel like stopping ). Generally,
meetings include a technical presentation on a hardware or software topic of
current interest to the UNIX community and a round-table discussion of
 current topics of interest to the group. UUASC-LA needs future topic
 suggestions (and volunteers)!!
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