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Debugging Munin Problems

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Administrator

Munin is an Open Source program that does system monitoring and produces beautiful graphs every 5 minutes using RRDTool. I recently updated to Munin 1.4.6 on a CentOS 6 linux system. Most of the graphs worked out of the box, … Continue reading →

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Stupid Apache HTTPD 2 Tricks

Posted on August 21, 2011 by Administrator

I recently updated a linux web server to CentOS 6 with all new software packages. I noticed some disturbing things related to Apache HTTPD: many apps are adding .conf files to /etc/httpd/conf.d, which was intended for virtualhosts. So guess what … Continue reading →

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OSCON 2011, Portland

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Administrator

Once again, the O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) was held in Portland, Oregon. It was held in parallel at the Oregon Convention Center with the O’Reilly OSdata and OSjava Conferences at the beginning of the week, and then later a … Continue reading →

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Perl DBD::mysql Administrative Functions

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Administrator

I was flipping through O’Reilly’s High Performance MySQL and noticed something handy on page 519 … $dbh->func(‘shutdown’,’admin’); You can call 4 mysql_* C API functions from within Perl scripts using DBD::mysql, that are also exposed in mysqladmin: $ perldoc DBD::mysql … Continue reading →

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Apache Cassandra Links

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Administrator

Apache Projects Cassandra Bugs Hadoop Hive HBase Cassandra Client Programs cassandra-cli Hector CQL Perl CPAN PHP SimpleCassie pycassa Java Performance Tools JConsole JMX TDA Opscenter JVMs Azul JRockit Java SE Java Benchmarks SPECjbb2005 SPECjEnterprise2010 Vendors DataStax Brisk Cloudera Events DataStax … Continue reading →

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