First time testing out a OpenVZ based VPS server from BuyVM.net. So I posted a review over at LowEndTalk.com testing out my modified Centmin v1.2.1-eva2000.13 beta release Menu mode installer script on a BuyVM.net 512MB/1GB Burstable OpenVZ VPS server. Interesting to learn about how OpenVZ VPS handles memory differently from other virtualization platforms and how...
Great news for WHM / Cpanel control panel users who have been asking for MySQL 5.5 support. Cpanel folks have announced that MySQL 5.5 support will officially make it in WHM 11.32 builds. Currently, MySQL 5.5.15 is latest MySQL Community build. Originally, they planned on leaving MySQL 5.5 to default to InnoDB storage engine but...
ioping.sh is a shell wrapper script for ioping – a disk I/O latency monitoring and benchmarking tool which allows you to measure real time disk I/O, disk seek rate, disk sequential speeds. Usage: chmod +x ioping.sh ./ioping.shchmod +x ioping.sh ./ioping.sh Download: ioping.zip Example output Install ./ioping.sh —————————————– ioping.sh 0.9.8 – http://vbtechsupport.com by George Liu (eva2000)...
Amazon Web Services announces a new product, Amazon ElastiCache – which is basically using Memcached server – a scalable distributed in-memory cache server for cloud hosting services such as Amazon EC2. Check out Amazon AWS blog for further details on Amazon ElastiCache. Amazon ElastiCache FAQ is here. ElastiCache feature set resembles more closely to the...
MariaDB 5.2.8 MySQL server has been released. Download MariaDB 5.2.8 MySQL server from http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/5.2.8/. Highlights of this release: Aria Fixes and Changes Fixes for Aria recover Fixes for updates with long keys. The max key length for aria has been reduced from about block_size/2 to block_size/3 (because the underflow algorithm requires this) Various Bug Fixes Several bugs were...
Percona MySQL Server 5.1.58-12.9 & Percona MySQL Server 5.5.14-20.5 have been officially released. Percona MySQL 5.1.58-12.9 downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories Percona MySQL 5.5.14-20.5 downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories Percona 5.1.58-12.9 Highlights Performance Improvements fsync() has been replaced with fdatasync() to improve perfomance where possible. The former is intended to sync...
Virtualbox is a useful tool for testing various Linux and Windows operating systems in a virtualized environment. However, while testing my modified Centmin Nginx installation script on CentOS 6.0 64bit, I came across an issue with installing VBoxGuestAddition components – the VirtualBox Guest Additions’ kernel modules failed to get built. Prior to CentOS 6.0, you...
Intel has been investigating an possible issue with their Intel SSD 320 series SSD. Unexpected power loss may result in what Intel terms a ‘Bad Context 13x Error’.
Name: George Liu
Online Handle: eva2000
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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