Category Archives: Sysadmin

Uptime Records

This makes me happy – to have 99% uptime over 3 years or so.
It also makes me sad – to have missed out beating my previous record.

chris@omicron ~ $ uprecords
# Uptime | System [...]

Omicron Upgrade

Over the past few months I’ve been noticing that my virtual server (omicron) has been frequently using over 80% of it’s available memory. This is likely due to the fact I started hosting a ruby on rails application (redmine) which means another set of processes (mongrel cluster) running the whole time in addition to what’s [...]

One Year’s Uptime

I just noticed that I’ve tipped one year’s worth of uptime on omicron.
Woo yeah!

Tomcat Configuration Tweaks

I am in the process of setting up a Tomcat based hosting on omicron (in addition to the apache vhosts it does now). Having been burned before by unexpected traffic, I’ve begun by looking at the Tomcat server configuration, before attempting to ‘join’ it to apache. The first potential problems points which sprung to mind [...]