Category Archives: Software

Move to Maven 3

Posted on January 9, 2011 by erik

Today I moved all my projects to maven 3.  The claim is that maven 3 is downwards compatible with maven 2, but have a look at the compatibility notes. The issues I ran into were: Parent resolution: Parents are no … Continue reading →

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New Server Setup is Complete!

Posted on January 5, 2011 by erik

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

Posted on December 19, 2010 by erik

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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Java? Java bien, merci!

Posted on December 6, 2010 by erik

This is how anyone’s first French lesson should start!

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Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) Benchmark Results

Posted on November 28, 2010 by erik

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…

Posted on November 23, 2010 by erik

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!

Posted on November 23, 2010 by erik

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

Posted on November 20, 2010 by erik

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…

Posted on November 14, 2010 by erik

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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Server ordered

Posted on November 8, 2010 by erik

So with one last changes of the heatsink to a Supermicro SNK-P0038P (bigger than the Intel) and of the chassis to the more silent SC743 TQ-865B-SQ, the server is now complete and I have placed the order. Now the waiting … Continue reading →

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