Competing webserver workloads

Thursday, 02. 17. 2011  –  Category: sw, web

Recently a client was receiving complaints that their busy server hosting both their WordPress sites and their OpenX (( advertising is a necessary evil, right? )) banner delivery was underperforming. Specifically, sites including their banners were seeing page loads hang on them. If you’re in the business of selling banners this is bad news. There […]

Timeouts and failing fast

Sunday, 01. 23. 2011  –  Category: sw, web

“Integration points are the number-one killer of systems” – Release It!, Michael Nygard Last week I had two different web systems fail in a similar way. One was a single box running two busy WordPress sites, another was a largish multi-tier publishing cluster. Both dropped off air because they didn’t handle the failure of a […]

FreeBSD, gettext, libintl and bash

Monday, 10. 25. 2010  –  Category: sw

Login surprise! Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994         The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved. FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p4 (GENERIC) #0: Mon Jul 12 20:22:27 UTC 2010 /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libintl.so.8" not found, required by "bash" $ What’s happened here is that gettext (which provides libintl.so) has been upgraded without its […]

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