Monthly Archives: May 2007

Feisty (2.6.20-16-generic kernel) boot failure

Posted on May 30, 2007 by Sigurd

In applying the latest Feisty Fawn updates to one of my laptops I ran into a problem with the bootup hanging shortly after starting. The usual snakeoil of ‘acpi=off pci=noacpi’ appended to the boot command line failed to make any … Continue reading →

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FastCGI issues in Lighttpd 1.4.13

Posted on May 25, 2007 by Sigurd

I ran into a set of problems recently with Lighttpd, which otherwise has been a marvellous piece of software. I use Lighty as a load-balancing proxy front-end for a set of backend request-handling servers written in Python, using the Pylons … Continue reading →

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Cluster monitoring and control

Posted on May 10, 2007 by Sigurd

I recently setup a cluster of Linux compute servers, and found myself looking for instrumentation to monitor & control the servers. The following open-source packages give excellent insight and access to the state of the cluster: Ganglia – server stats, … Continue reading →

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