MySQL on BTRFS?

i’ve been running a set of production MySQL databases on BTRFS since April 2016. BTRFS is not exactly known for its stellar performance when hosting databases or images of virtual machines due to its COW nature. why would i do it then? to have data snapshots and be able to ‘go back in time’ quickly ... Read More

A wall of text on bad and good choices

In this line of work, you don’t just get to play with shiny toys having plenty of blinking lights. There’s plenty of choices to be done nearly every day. Choices or rather bets: some of the technologies, software stacks, products or services provided internally will eventually be a flop. Decisions made over the years are ... Read More

E5-2643 in r620 stuck at a very low cpu frequency

few weeks ago i’ve done a general firmware upgrade of 2 identical Dell Poweredge r620 servers. a while later i’ve noticed that one of them had really sluggish performances. i’ve noticed that /proc/cpuinfo has shown CPU frequencies of hundreds of MHz rather than thousands. cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep MHz gave me 16 rows of values between ... Read More

lxc broken after upgrade from linux-image-4.12.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 to linux-image-4.13.0-0.bpo.1-amd64

lxc containers no longer start after i’ve upgraded debian stretch server from 4.12 kernel from stretch-backports repository to 4.13 also from backports. symptoms in /var/log/syslog: that was resolved by creating /etc/systemd/network/99-default.link with: via this comment. then there was nothing interesting in syslog but the lxc guest still would not start – lxc-start -F -n serverName ... Read More