I have created an RPM package, and SRPM package, which I will share here, for smartmontools version 6.5 on RHEL 6. Note that the official version is 5.43 which is clueless with many modern SSD disks. I have yet to test it correctly, and in general – use at your own risk.
Unlike VMware Server, Xen’s HyperVisor does not allow an easy collection of performance information. The management machine, called “Domain-0” is actually a privileged virtual machine, and thus – get its own small share of CPUs and RAM. Collecting performance information on it will lead to, well, collecting performance information for a single VM, and not…
I have had recently the pleasure and challenge of setting up VPN server for mobile devices on top of Linux. the common method to do so would be by using IPSec + L2TP, as these are to more common methods mobile devices allow, and it should work quite fine with other types of clients (although…
Alongside a newer kernel, I’m enjoying a newer Software Suspend2 package. I am not crazy about betas, or RCs, so now I’m on the 2.2 stable. I have hibernated only once since I’ve upgraded kernel, but it went just fine on the first try, so I’m rather ok with it without setting a set of…
I am working on an article which will describe the procedures required to extend LUN on Linux storage clients, with and without use of multipath (device-mapper-multipath) and with and without partitioning (I tend to partition storage disks, even when this is not exactly required). Also – it will deal with migration from MBR to GPT…
If it works, don’t touch it. This is one of my mottoes. I have broken this rule just yesterday when I decided that I was too lazy to install Pidgin from source, and decided I wanted it to be installed directly from deb. Unfortunately, there was no pidgin deb for Edgy. None that I was…
Sysstat package, for me, is a must on any Linux machine I get to deal with. It allows for easy collection of performance data, and it allows easy postmortem of past (short past, anyhow) problems. For me, the only change from RHEL4 defaults is by setting the time interval to one minute, in stead of…
