Hyper Threading Aware Process Scheduling Heuristics
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jrb44/docs/bulpin_usenix05/

Here is a rundown on hyper-threading. Over the past year we tested various machine roles with HT-ON and rolled that change into production for most systems. However, we found it hurt BFS performance. This article covers the "Engineer" level content and touches on why it is not the best solution for all software.

Jeffrey Kelly
http://sailwhatcom.com

Load Testing Web Services
http://webservices.sys-con.com/read/284564.htm

Article covering challenges of performance testing web services and some of the performance differences between legacy and SOA architectures.

Jeffrey Kelly
http://sailwhatcom.com

High-performance software testing teams: A guide for managers and team leads
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/content/RationalEdge/sep04/dimaggio/index.html

I am a big fan of knowing what the judge or teacher or boss is looking for when I'm working toward some end. This article thinly covers some team dynamic topics (targeted at managers) for performance test teams, much of which translates to any technology team. Happy reading.

Jeffrey Kelly
http://sailwhatcom.com

Approaches to Performance Testing
http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2005/09/performance_testing.html

This article by BEA covers various types of perf testing and what to look for. Generally targeted at Java...

Jeffrey Kelly
http://sailwhatcom.com

Multiple IE Versions At Once
http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE

This article explains a handy exploit to the workings of "DLL Hell" that allows users to deploy and run multiple versions of internet explorer on a single machine.


Jeffrey Kelly
http://sailwhatcom.com