[nginx forum post] Centralized logging for multiple servers
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009post on nginx forum that provides some insights about central logging / log collections
Archive for the 'system' Category
TCP Tuning Guide [Office of Science, DOE, US GOV]
Friday, May 15th, 2009Excellent site provides both theoretical background and practical recommendation for the situation when you need to push limits of TCP links using regular OS and commodity hardware. Especially useful if you need to do it via long-haul fast TCP link,…
Bug 484667 – Dropping packets in bnx2 since 1.7.9 bnx2 version
Sunday, April 26th, 2009issue with dropped packets on newer broadcomm ethernet cards, found in dell 1950III servers
Nginx Wiki
Saturday, March 14th, 2009main source of Nginx info in English. Documentation, config examples, code cross-reference info.
Skiplist recovery – Science IT [recover Cyrus IMAP <mailbox>.seen database]
Thursday, March 5th, 2009This note explains how you can recover corrupted skiplist databases used by cyrus to keep track of the mailbox status (eg READ/UNREAD email).
Ubuntu Forums – View Single Post – VirtualBox – How can I Increase Screen Resolution??
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009“sudo VBoxManage setextradata global GUI/MaxGuestResolution 1920,1200″
CPU Rings, Privilege, and Protection : Gustavo Duarte
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008An exellent introduction article about x86 cpus protection mechanism. (run instruction in “rings”) good read.
To BLOB or Not To BLOB: Large Object Storage in a Database or a Filesystem?
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008a paper from microsoft research comparing perfomance of 2 systems: metadata in db + files in fs vs. meatadata + files as blobs in db. Study uses MSSQL and NTFS. Datasets are in less than 1 GB size.
Why power failures are bad for your data
Friday, July 25th, 2008artilcle tells what happens when u pull the plug … in short nothing good will happen, so use UPS! read article for details
[x86 booting] The Kernel Boot Process
Wednesday, July 23rd, 20083rd article — explains how linux kernel boots