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handling vps numproc limits

this is my vps package £14.99 uk pounds a month, so not to expensive. Thay are limiting numproc to 96, they didn’t make it obvious that this was a limit when I signed up, but I suppose it is my fault for not asking. I am running Tomcat and if I run out of numproc then Java will crash and

How do I know if my server has NUMA?

Hopping from Java Garbage Collection, I came across JVM settings for NUMA. Curiously I wanted to check if my CentOS server has NUMA capabilities or not. Is there a *ix command or utility that could grab this info? Answer I’m no expert here, but here’s something: Box 1, no NUMA: Box 2, some NUMA:

Using MD5 in kernel space of Linux

I am trying to use the kernel space implementation of the md5 algorithm (md5.h and md5.c). It turns out that md5.h does not declare the functions found in md5.c, so I could not simply include md5.h into my c file. I also wanted to avoid altering md5.h to declare the functions, since that could have unintended…

SYSTEM: denied request 44 in Minix

I get “SYSTEM: denied request 44 from 109894” when trying to execute my own code in Minix 3.2. I typed over the code and the makefile so there could be some typos. The program compiles fine however. My c file: My makefile: Minix uses the BSD compilation platform (hence the tag). Answer Apparently …

Installing scrapy (openSSL)

I’m using scrapy for couple of months now. I’ve been using it on the couple of machines and never had trouble with it. I used it on Windows xp and 7, I also used it on arch linux and never had trouble installing. Pretty much it was only pip install scrapy and done. Now I’m trying to set it u…