Spring is in the air
Nice weather is finally coming to town and I must say that having sun shining outside every once in a…
Heartbeat..
I always thought of heartbeat as a way of keeping various clustered systems alive. But since a few days I…
RRDtool
RRDtool is a wonderful utility to collect data and create graphs. Why oh why does it have such a crappy…
Friday Afternoon Syndrome
Friday afternoon syndrome is a pleasant disease which can be characterized and distinguished by the following things: Total de-motivation for…
Testdrive of Windows 7, first impressions
So, I managed to install windows 7 in vmware machine in the weekend. Actually in this case “managed” is a…
New monster is on its way
Microsoft announced today the availability of Windows 7. Starting from January 9 one can download it from https://www.microsoft.com/windows7. I, for…
Finding MySQL lockups
It’s been two months now since something drops one of my MySQLs on its knees. Run queue jumps up to…
Thus, the lesson on MySQL caching learned…
Default settings of MySQL are in no way good to work with large databases. Example: Virtual XEN machine, 512M RAM,…