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cpulimit – Limit the cpu usage of a process

Posted by Admin on 11th September 2009

cpulimit is a simple program that attempts to limit the cpu usage of a process (expressed in percentage, not in cpu time). This is useful to control batch jobs, when you don’t want them to eat too much cpu. It does not act on the nice value or other scheduling priority stuff, but on the real cpu usage. Also, it is able to adapt itself to the overall system load, dynamically and quickly.
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Bluecoat Proxy SG device Supporting FTP

Posted by Admin on 5th September 2009

There are two deployment configurations in which you can deploy your ProxySG.  One is explicit, and the other is transparent.  Please click on the term for a definition of what each of those mean.  This document will break down the FTP proxy by deployment.
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Howto install Java6 on debian Etch

Posted by Admin on 24th August 2009

Java refers to a number of computer software products and specifications from Sun Microsystems that together provide a system for developing application software and deploying it in a cross-platform environment. Java is used in a wide variety of computing platforms from embedded devices and mobile phones on the low end, to enterprise servers and supercomputers on the high end. Java is nearly ubiquitous in mobile phones, Web servers and enterprise applications, and while less common on desktop computers, Java applets are often used to provide improved functionality while browsing the World Wide Web.
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Howto Install Proxmox VE 1.3 on debian 5.01 (Lenny) AMD64

Posted by Admin on 13th August 2009

Since disk image of Proxmox VE 1.3 cannot install to my RAID 5EE or 6 hard drive space that larger than 2TB. I have a 3.6TB RAID 5EE hard storage. Therefore, I install it by packages on debian Lenny AMD64.
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Step by Step tutorial howto compile kernel in Debian 5.0 (Lenny)

Posted by Admin on 28th July 2009

This tutorial will explain Howto compile kernel in Debian 5.0.The default kernel that comes with Debian is better suited for servers. It’s optimized for high thoughput and low interactivity. When you compile your own, you can among other things optimize it for the processor(s) you have.
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iotop – simple top-like I/O monitor

Posted by Admin on 13th July 2009

iotop does for I/O usage what top does for CPU usage. It watches I/O usage information output by the Linux kernel (requires 2.6.20 or later) and displays a table of current I/O usage by processes on the system. Handy for answering the question “Why is my disk churning so much?”.
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