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Optimizing a web server

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 04 Mar 2003 21:40:41 +0000

Promises of better Apache performance have me lusting after lingerd, a very obscure utility that increases performance for dynamic content. It's been used on a handful of little sites you might have heard of: Slashdot, Newsforge, and LiveJournal.

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Hello again…

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 19 Aug 2001 21:46:36 +0000

I'm rested but not caught up. I semi-successfully built a Linux From Scratch box; it's easily the fastest computer I've ever seen but not everything works quite right. I made the mistake of using Mandrake 8.0 as my source platform. In some regards Mandrake 8 makes sense; it has recent kernel and glibc versions. Unfortunately it also uses the infamous GCC 2.96; an unofficial release of GNU's C compiler that's so wretched that Linus Torvalds actually has asked people to not do any kernel development using any OS that uses it. One of the first things LFS does is build its own copy of GCC 2.95.3, but unfortunately, there's code in my system that GCC 2.96 got its grubby mitts on and stuff doesn't work. Notably, I can't build another LFS system using it as the source. Crimony.

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If you didn’t compile it yourself, it’s not really yours.

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 14 Aug 2001 16:39:32 +0000

I'm on my Linux From Scratch kick again. Unfortunately, compiling a complete workstation from scratch takes a really long time (the systems that benefit the most from it, namely low-end P2s, need close to a day to compile everything if you want X, KDE and GNOME and some common apps) and requires you to type a lot of awkward commands that are easy to mess up. The upside: Messages like, "I did my first LFS on a Pentium II 18 months ago and it was by far the best workstation I've ever had," are common on LFS discussion boards.

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Back in the swing of things

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 30 Jul 2001 01:34:29 +0000

Here are some odds and ends, since I've gone nearly a week without talking computers.

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