Trying out “ulimit -s 2048” in /etc/rc.d/rc, as per this article. The default of 10MB for stack does indeed seem too high.
Category: Sysadmin
System administration is a special are of IT. It also has a special place in my heart. It is an interesting mixture of all the other disciplines, both common across the whole industry, and at the same time unique for each person, company, and geographical location. When I have something to say or share about system administration, I use this category.
Happy birthday, Slashdot!
Slashdot, probably the most well-known technology news website, is celebrating its 15th birthday. I can’t say that I’ve been reading it for 15 years (yet), but I’m pretty close. If I remember correctly, Vladimir showed it to me some time back in 1998-1999. I’ve followed it since.
Even today, with all the multitude of tech blogs and news outlets, Slashdot is still important to me. While you can get the same kind of news elsewhere, the discussions are still the reason to go back. Some are funny, some are obligatory, but mostly are insightful comments that show the original article’s problem space from different perspectives.
Happy birthday, Slashdot!
PowerDNS
spoon.net – run any desktop application on deman
spoon.net – run any desktop application on deman
I haven’t tried it myself yet, but a few people mentioned to me that this is mighty useful for cross-browser testing during web development and design.
Zabbix – The Enterprise-class Monitoring Solution
Zabbix – The Enterprise-class Monitoring Solution
Zabbix is the ultimate open source availability and performance monitoring solution. Zabbix offers advanced monitoring, alerting, and visualization features today which are missing in other monitoring systems, even some of the best commercial ones. Below is a short list of features available in Zabbix:
- auto-discovery of servers and network devices
- low-level discovery
- distributed monitoring with centralized web administration
- support for both polling and trapping mechanisms
- server software for Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OS X
- native high performance agents (client software for Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OS X, Tru64/OSF1, Windows NT4.0, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista)
- agent-less monitoring
- secure user authentication
- flexible user permissions
- web-based interface
- flexible e-mail notification of predefined events
- high-level (business) view of monitored resources
- audit log