[lopsa-tech] Nagios scaling solved with mod_gearman

2012-02-03 Thread Mark Plaksin
Hi, Why isn't the mod_gearman the #1 hit for "nagios latency" or "nagios scaling"? It should be. Seems to be common knowledge that Nagios can only handle a certain number of hosts and services but I had never heard "just install mod_gearman and the limits are *much* higher." We knew our Nagios

Re: [lopsa-tech] Need ideas/suggestions for bringing several VMs back online after an outage

2013-10-31 Thread Mark Plaksin
Mathew Snyder writes: > How do your systems handle it? When the storage suddenly disappears and then > reappears the OS isn't seeing that as an event that requires an automatic, > online fsck. When the OS or filesystem(s) lose their mind due to such an event we've (in general) found no succe

Re: [lopsa-tech] Need ideas/suggestions for bringing several VMs back online after an outage

2013-10-31 Thread Mark Plaksin
Mathew Snyder writes: > Has anyone else dealt with a similar situation or at least have insight > into steps we can take and tools we can implement to make our lives easier? Nothing more than an anecdote but in practice we almost never have to manually interact with RHEL fscks after an event

Re: [lopsa-tech] Dvorak keyboards

2014-10-31 Thread Mark Plaksin
Morgan Blackthorne writes: > Ah, well, when I'm not a sysadmin, I am a writer. :) So I come at > things from that perspective as well, not necessarily just from a > dev/SA perspective. > > While I can agree that ergonomics will vary from person to person, > intentionally spacing out frequently

Re: [lopsa-tech] Living inside your editor (vim or emacs)?

2015-10-30 Thread Mark Plaksin
Yves Dorfsman writes: > For people spending a lot of time in a terminal/shell (bash, csh etc...) do > you work from the shell or from an editor? > > The joke goes that people using emacs live inside emacs, and I have indeed > seen developers working from a simple window and sending chunk of cod