Bash functions are more versatile than aliases. For example, they accept parameters. Is there any drawback to going full function style and completely drop aliases, even for simple cases? I can imagine that maybe functions are more resource intensive, but have no data to back that up. Any other reason to keep…
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Mitigating memory leaks by forking
This is a really ugly question. I have a C++ program which does the following in a loop: Waits for a JMS message Calculates some data Sends a JMS message in response My program (let’s call it “Bob”) has a rather severe memory leak. The memory leak is located in a shared library that someone …
Limit a set of processes’ CPU and memory usage
Browsing the web has low priority for me, and so I would like all the processes that deal with it to be low priority, too. Is this approach a valid one? Open a console window with the nice command. Launch the browser from this console. Will the program launched from this console inherit the niceness of the co…
What is the best way to store usage reports over time?
I currently have a few server reports that return usage statistics whenever run. The data is collected from several different sources (mostly log files), so they’re not in a database to begin with. The returned data are simple lists, for example, detailing how much disk space a user is using (user =>…