tuning

How-To: Reboot on OOM

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Ever had your linux box getting Out of Memory (OOM)? Cleaning up after the OOM killer kicked in to find out that even though OOM killer did a decent job at t...

How To: booting another Grub from Grub

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Chainloading an operating system allows grub to boot an opearating system’s boot loader. This is commonly used to boot Windows for instance.

How-To turn off beep from virtual console

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Linux offers a great tool: Tab Completion. With tab completion, you can easily navigate through your filesystem, find command names you forgot the exact name...

Basic Apache Optimizations

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Apache, the most popular web server, is a stable and reliable software for providing web pages to the world. But sometimes, it happens that Apache will strug...

How To: Optimize MySQL response time

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High loaded website can get slow to respond when a lot of different visitors visit sites querying the same mysql database server, making it slow to respond.