Saturday, October 10th, 2009
To prepare for several upcoming articles on AskApache that are focused on optimizing Servers and Sites from a server admin level, here is an article to introduce the main tools that we will be using. These tools are used to optimize CPU time for each process using nice and renice, and other tools like ionice are used to optimize the Disk IO, or Disk speed / Disk traffic for each process. Then you can make sure your mysqld and httpd processes are always fast and prioritized.
Tags: bash, chrt, CPU Scheduling, Disk IO, ionice, iostat, Nice, optimize processes, Renice, servers, Shell Scripting, taskset
Posted in Apache, Cache, Featured, Linux Unix BSD, Review, Security, Server Administration, Shell Scripting, Web Hosting, Webmaster | 2 Comments »
Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Search all files in a directory, replacing all occurances of string with a replacement string.
Tags: bash, find, grep, linux, Nice, search and replace, shell script, xargs
Posted in Featured, Linux Unix BSD, Shell Scripting, Web Hosting | 7 Comments »