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. 1. If loop device is compiled directly in the kernel Pass
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ld-linux.so Taking High CPU Usage Caused by Adobe Reader
Posted on解决ld-linux.so大量占用CPU 注: 这是在低版本上的Adobe Reader导致的, 较新版本可能已经无此问题. — Zhiqiang Ma on Oct. 29, 2011 在我这边是因为adobe reader导致的. 我解决的方法是这样子的: 1. 复制一份libgtkembedmoz.so并认reader使用它, 这个在preferrence中找到设置一下就可以了, 我是从thunderbird中找到的. 2. #setsebool -P allow_execheap=1 关于这个的相关解释如下 ************************************************************* The following error pops up in setroubleshooter when opening a PDF form with Adobe Reader 8.1.2 on a Fedora 8 system with SELinux in enforcing mode. It looks like an
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How to Run a cron Job Every Two Weeks / Months / Days
Posted onWe may want to run some jobs for every two weeks/months/days… under some situation such as backing up for every other week. In addition, we may add more complex rules for running jobs, e.g. run a command when the load of the server is higher than a certain level. With the help of the shell
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How to Compress/Uncompress Files in Linux Using gzip, bzip2, 7z, rar and zip
Posted onCompress/uncompress files are frequent operations. The normal tools for compressing/uncompressing in Linux is gzip, bzip2, 7z, rar and zip. This post introduces how to compress and uncompress file in Linux using these tools. We use best compressing rate with all these tools and mark the options for “best rate” in bold fonts. We can delete
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Hadoop TeraSort Benchmark
Posted onTeraSort is one of Hadoop’s widely used benchmarks. Hadoop’s distribution contains both the input generator and sorting implementations: the TeraGen generates the input and TeraSort conducts the sorting. Here, we provide a short tutorial for using the Hadoop TeraSort benchmark. TeraGen generates random data that can be used as input data for a subsequent running
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Hadoop Installation Tutorial (Hadoop 1.x)
Posted onUpdate: If you are new to Hadoop and trying to install one. Please check the newer version: Hadoop Installation Tutorial (Hadoop 2.x). Hadoop mainly consists of two parts: Hadoop MapReduce and HDFS. Hadoop MapReduce is a programming model and software framework for writing applications, which is an open-source variant of MapReduce that is initially designed
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Setting Up a Git Server Using Gitosis
Posted onUpdate: Since gitosis is not maintained and supported, please check out gitolite for setting up a new git server. (see the comment from Sitaram Chamarty, the gitolite author, the author of gitolite.) Gitosis is a piece of software writen by Tommi Virtanen for hosting git repositories. It manages multiple repositories under the same user account.
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A Simple Sort Benchmark on Hadoop
Posted onAfter [[hadoop-installation-tutorial|installing Hadoop]], we usually run some benchmark programs to test whether the system works well. In the post of the Hadoop install tutorial, we show a very simple to grep strings from a simple sets of files. In this post, we introduce the Sort for testing and benchmarking Hadoop. The Sort program is also
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mrcc – A Distributed C Compiler System on MapReduce
Posted onThe mrcc project’s homepage is here: mrcc project. Abstract mrcc is an open source compilation system that uses MapReduce to distribute C code compilation across the servers of the cloud computing platform. mrcc is built to use Hadoop by default, but it is easy to port it to other could computing platforms, such as MRlite,
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