I have had an interesting experience with HPE servers, where the BIOS was defined to allow max performance (in contrast to ‘balanced’ mode), but still – the CPU was not at max all the time. While we generally, strive to a greener computing, when having low-latency workload, we expect a deterministic performance. We want our…
With the update to version 8 (or, if to be accurate, according to common documentations, 8.3 and above), VNC configuration has had a major overhaul, and it is entirely different. Most documentations will refer to using ‘gnome’ as the desktop manager, however – if you want something lightweight with minimal impact (both package-wise and performance-wise),…
This is a problem which bugs the Internet. Many solutions were suggested. All of them work sometimes (like making sure that the permissions on the private/public SSH key files are correct). One solution which never gets mentioned is about DNS. When attempting login to a remote server, the server attempts to resolve the connecting address…
ZFS has some magical features, comparable to NetApp’s WAFL capabilities. One of the less-used on is the ZFS send/receive, which can be utilised as an engine below something much like NetApp’s SnapMirror or SnapVault. The idea, if you are not familiar with NetApp’s products, is to take a snapshot of a dataset on the source,…
This is a tricky one. In order to resize /boot, which is, commonly the first partition, you need to push forward the beginning of the next partition. This is not an easy task, especially if you are not using LVM – then you have to use external partitioning modification tools, like PQMagic (if it still…
An update: I am adding a link to a post where I share my thoughts about the additional steps required to protect a Linux system against physical access to data. I add it at the top of this article, because I want some insight from you – the people who might read this post. It…
