Category Archives: Devops/Linux

Processor evolution, will history repeat itself?

It is interesting to see what is going on in the industry with regard to the development of CPUs. In particular, the first dual core smartphones are being released right now and there are even quad core CPUs expected later … Continue reading

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KVM Setup Overview

The server has been running stable now for quite some time in the new setup with several virtual machines providing the actual functionality using Kernel Virtual Machine. The setup is as follows. The host (falcon) is running a linux server … Continue reading

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Two worlds meet (1): Automated creation of Yum Repos with Maven, Nexus, and Hudson

This is the first of a series of blogs titled ‘Two worlds meet’ talking about how two technologies can be used together to solve a problem. Mostly one world will be linux or more specifically a virtualized linux setup using … Continue reading

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New Server Setup is Complete!

Over the past weeks I have spent huge amounts of time in setting up the new server, making sure that I preserve the complete functionality that I had before. My aim was to take my old server (i.e. server installation) … Continue reading

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Sticky 911! Making it easy to quickly and reliably boot your linux OS from USB or CD/DVD

I have been isolinux in the past to boot my server. In fact, it used to be the only way to boot it because somehow my BIOS did not recognize the RAID card. That problem was solved later by a … Continue reading

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Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) Benchmark Results

General Approach Over the past week, I have been doing benchmarking on KVM performance. The reason for this is that I want to use KVM on my new server and need to know what the impact of KVM is on … Continue reading

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Benchmarking KVM continues…

After running quite a few tests with different configurations and doing also some manual testing, I am finding out that more or less the main factor in performance of KVM versus native is the disk IO. In particular, the schedulilng … Continue reading

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Oh no, I’ve created a monster!

I have started to do benchmarking with virtual machines under opensuse 11.3 with KVM and had setup a number of different domains to run the same OS under different settings. Just one minor issue occurred which was that some domains … Continue reading

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Completed server upgrade

As preparation for the new server I am getting, I am preparing for that by at least getting the software to a more recent baseline. The idea is to first upgrade the software to the more recent versions while still … Continue reading

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Experimenting with KVM…

For the new server I want to use a virtualized setup and would like to split up the server into several independent parts. At least one VM dedicated to mythtv and I stil have to think about the rest. Anyway, … Continue reading

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