Wet and rainy in New Jersey today. It is surprisingly warm today. Much warmer than I was anticipating and I had to carry my fleece most of the way to the office. It is Friday so I get to go in a little late although I am sure that it will be a busy day …
Author Archives: Scott Alan Miller
Linux Processor Ignored
WARNING: NR_CPUS limit of 1 reached. Processor ignored. Not exactly the error message that you were hoping to see when you were checking you dmesg logs. Don’t panic, this is easily remedied. If you are wondering how to check your own Linux system for this error you can look by using this command: dmesg | …
April 3, 2008: Vista SP1 Day
If you like IHOP, you’ll love SpyHop! Today is my work from home day and I am taking advantage of it to do the Vista Server Pack 1 update on Dominica’s HP Compaq 6515b laptop. It is a pretty major change and includes the kernel change syncing Vista with Windows Server 2008. So I am …
April 2, 2008: Nothing Exciting Today
I worked at home until midnight last night. I went to bed when I was just too exhausted to be of any use. I took Oreo for a late night walk outside and discovered that it was raining. Raining quite hard in fact, but it didn’t start until the moment that Oreo and I went …
Linux’ kscand
In Linux the kscand process is a kernel process which is a key component of the virtual memory (vm) system. According to Unix Tech Tips & Tricks’ excellent Understanding Virtual Memory article “The kscand task periodically sweeps through all the pages in memory, taking note of the amount of time the page has been in …