February 2006

Monitoring services with snmp and rrd

February 10, 2006

O’Reilly tutorial An actually simple tutorial The inspiration for this little project

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performance tuning httpd

February 8, 2006

Today I’m working on performance tuning httpd on the primary production server. It has totally been out of hand this week. 1. Increase MinSpareServers and MaxSpareServers.

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profiling memory usage

February 8, 2006

Just came across this interesting mailing list post on profiling memory usage on Linux.

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MediaWiki and reverse proxy

February 4, 2006

I’ve been trying to ProxyPass from a primary server to a backend (but not firewalled) machine running MediaWiki 1.5.2 with very little luck. I finally come across the solution. backend.machine.edu is the machine hosting MediaWiki. frontend.machine.edu is the machine acting as a reverse proxy. 1. Proxy machine, httpd.conf ProxyPass /wiki http://backend.machine.edu/wiki 2. On backend.machine.edu edit [...]

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Future-proofing movable type URLS

February 1, 2006

Here’s a useful tutorial on future proofing the irritating stub-based URLs of movable type (and many blogging systems).

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