On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 2:01 AM, wrote:
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> Along the same lines. for large applications (like Apache), don't enable
> features that you don't need. If possible compile your own so that the
> features you don't need aren't even compiled. This makes it likely that
> security patches for this a
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, da...@lang.hm wrote:
> Remember that if it's not installed on the server it doesn't need to be
Excellent advice. I've encapsulated my thoughts on the subject here:
http://practicalsysadmin.com/wiki/index.php/Minimum_Software
> Along the same lines. for large applications
- "Brian Mathis" wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 2:01 AM, wrote:
> [...]
> > Along the same lines. for large applications (like Apache), don't
> enable
> > features that you don't need. If possible compile your own so that
> the
> > features you don't need aren't even compiled. This makes
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Bryce T. Pier wrote:
> So I'm curious what other people are doing on the Linux platform>
For Linux itself (rather than whatever GNU/Linux based operating
system distribution you happen to be running), take a look at
http://www.ksplice.com/
>From their FAQ:
Wha
Does anyone have recommendations on running Splunk under Xen?
http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/installation/SystemRequirements
says "Note: Running Splunk in virtual machine (VM) mode on any platform
will degrade performance." and the recommended hardware config is at
least: 2x qu
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Hi, Ryan -
It depends entirely on the quantity of logs you're trying to analyze.
Splunk is primarily IO-bound but depending on your configuration it can
peg your processors nicely to boot. I wouldn't recommend running Splunk
in a virtualized environme
Thanks for the info.
Ryan
Trey Darley wrote:
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> Hi, Ryan -
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> It depends entirely on the quantity of logs you're trying to analyze.
> Splunk is primarily IO-bound but depending on your configuration it can
> peg your processors nicely to boo
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Ryan Pugatch wrote:
> Does anyone have recommendations on running Splunk under Xen?
>
> http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/installation/SystemRequirements
> says "Note: Running Splunk in virtual machine (VM) mode on any platform
> will degrade performance." and th
