So I thought I’d checkout if mega.co.nz had finally released a Linux client and it appears they have! They just forgot to mention it to people. You can download it from here.
further reading http://www.webupd8.org/2014/09/download-megasync-for-linux-desktops.html
Previously I wrote about Linux Memory and Linux CPU. This post I want to talk about database tuning, mainly in regards to MySQL.
mysql table types Before we can begin to allocate the correct amount of RAM to MySQL we need to have a good understanding of the type of data we’re serving and the type of load the data is going to receive. MySQL has two main table types, MyISAM and InnoDB.
July 25, 2014 is the 15th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. Cake welcome!
The first System Administrator Appreciation Day was celebrated on July 28, 2000. Kekatos was inspired to create the special day by a Hewlett-Packard magazine advertisement in which a system administrator is presented with flowers and fruit-baskets by grateful co-workers as thanks for installing new printers. Kekatos had just installed several of the same model printer at his workplace.
sar gives us an overview of what the system is doing. If you had a high %iowait you might want to figure out what drive is currently being used. To do this we use ‘iostat’. ‘iostat’ will by default give you all the reads and writes that the server has performed since start up.
root@earth:~# iostat Linux 3.11.0-15-generic (earth) 07/01/2014 _x86_64_ (8 CPU) avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 4.
