> From: Bill Bogstad [mailto:bogs...@pobox.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 5:49 PM
> To: Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> Cc: GNHLUG; blu
> Subject: Re: [Discuss] Dev Ops - architecture (local not cloud)
>
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> wrote:
> >> From: discuss-boun
Valve's FAQ:
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse/discussions/1/64881439574198/
Some interesting data points:
* Valve chose main line Debian as the foundation with some backports
from testing.
Using main line Debian is a smart choice. While Ubuntu is a nicer
(arguably) desktop,
dan moylan wrote:
> now everything works!
Good.
> it's tedious to check out variations since
> one needs to reboot between changes.
Reboot? Try:
% apachectl graceful
See:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/apachectl.html
Or more generically, with most modern distributions:
% sudo reloa
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
wrote:
>> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
>> bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Kent Borg
>> Something else I long ago observed: Because ethernet degrades gracefully it
>> always operates degrad
tom metro writes:
> It would seem somewhere in your config file, the URI
> /cgi-bin/ is being mapped to /usr/lib/cgi-bin. I don't see
> that in your quoted portion, so you might want to poke
> around some more. (grep for /usr/lib and cgi-bin in
> http.conf and other files in /etc/apache2/conf.d.)
> From: Kent Borg [mailto:kentb...@borg.org]
>
> Whenever IT gets beyond engineers managing their own machines, it tends
> towards bad. Thankless job, that is not trivial, but usually tries to run on
> lists
> of inflexible policies and procedures.
Only at companies with crap IT. (Which I admi
On 12/13/2013 01:42 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (dcu) wrote:
>Whenever the power blinks at my job my computer stays happy, because I
>have a tiny UPS that can ride out short outages. But the rest of the services
>on our network seem to take the better part of an hour to all come back.
Sounds like a sy
On 12/13/2013 01:33 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
What do you do for backups and long-term archives? How do you ensure
that, for example, every user leaves their workstation turned on 24/7?
You have a point there, but this is different from what offers higher
performance.
Personally, at work, I
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
> bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Kent Borg
>
> Sure, the
> server will have somewhat faster parts, but it might also have more than one
> user. And the network might have some congestion.
Depends on the users. Su
Kent Borg wrote:
Maybe because I was young and impressionable during the early personal
computer era, it seems better to me to give users their own hardware
rather than servers...unless there is a real economy of scale that kicks
in for the server. Now that the PC era is coming to a close, this
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
> bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Derek Martin
>
> Now, these days, it's actually hard to buy a disk
> that won't give you more than 8MB/s sustained transfer rate (which is
> roughly what you could expect over 100Mb
On 12/13/2013 12:07 PM, Derek Martin wrote:
if your NFS server is built for it (i.e. it isn't just yet another
desktop with a single local disk) you should easily be able to far
exceed the performance of a workstation's cheap local disk.
Maybe because I was young and impressionable during the
I get 100MB/s sustained writes with desktop class disks and 80MB/s
sustained writes with notebook disks (3Gb/s devices; I don't have any
6Gb/s yet). Even a relatively slow SATA 1.5Gb/s disk should get you at
least 50MB/s throughput.
GigE without jumbo frames caps at about 80MB/s sustained tran
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 11:16:32AM -0500, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote:
> NFS is not as fast as a local disk, but it should not be that slow.
As JABR points out, that's really a misconception. It depends a great
deal on all the hardware involved. Now, these days, it's actually
hard to buy a disk t
Great advice all!
It's funny. Often I'm in a room with a bunch of technologists and
quickly it becomes apparent that I'm the most knowledgeable. But on
this list I'm not even close. Your sharing of info is much
appreciated.
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
wrote:
>> F
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
> bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Eric Chadbourne
>
> At first blush it appears
> these devices are not yet ready for corporate use but too late. Already
> purchased by managers.
Also worth mention: When I had an
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