We need more loop devices on Linux than the default number (most commonly 8) some time, such as we are building 12 or more virtual machines on top of xen using loop device backed VBD. In this post, we want to use 32 loops.
Pass “max_loop=32” to grub command line.
Pass “max_loop=32” as argument to the modprobe command.
# modprobe loop max_loop=32
We ever discussed How To Install R and RStudio Server in Ubuntu Linux 20.04. If the purpose is to install a local RStudio IDE instead of a remote RStudio Server, we can install RStudio Desktop. In this post, we introduce how to install R and RStudio Desktop on Ubuntu Linux 20.04. For other Ubuntu version,…
We may need to install some old packages such as the kernel in our Linux box. Let’s use installing a older version of Linux kernel in Fedora as the example to introduce how to install old packages from the repository using yum. By now, suppose we have install kernel-2.6.32.16-143 in the Linux box and we…
Abstract Most popular task monitor systems (such as top, iotop, proc, etc) can only get tasks’ disk I/O information like tasks’ I/O utilization percentage every seconds due to kernel timer/tick frequency and high time cost of system interfaces. This article presents I/O Microscopy, a new way to get tasks’ disk I/O information with high accuracy….
How to exclude last N columns of a string in bash? The point is that the number of columns in each line is uncertain (but > N). For example, I would like to remove the last 2 columns separated by ‘.’ in the following lines. systemd.3.gz systemd.mount.3.gz systemd.mount.f.3.gz The simple cut command cut -d’.’ -f1…
How to get the date and time from another timezone in Python? You may use the pytz library. Example usage as follows. $ python3 Python 3.8.2 (default, Jul 16 2020, 14:00:26) >>> from datetime import datetime >>> import pytz >>> >>> print(datetime.now(pytz.timezone(‘Europe/Amsterdam’)).strftime(‘%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z%z’)) 2020-08-09 15:50:00 CEST+0200 >>> Read more: How to get date and…
Search and replace in the whole text in Vim can be done by :%s/from/to/gc. But how to search and replace in visual selection only? The %V atom in Vim restricts a pattern so that it matches only inside the visual selection. So, your command for searching and replacing only in the visual selection can be…