February 13, 2008: It’s Hump Day

Just a reminder to everyone, tomorrow is Saint Valentine’s Day. If you aren’t careful you will forget. Today was very busy for me.  I was going crazy all day trying to keep up.  My big challenge of the day is a Veritas Volume Manager project on three servers.  I have worked with LVM on Linux …

February 12, 2008: Lot’s of Writing Today

Oreo made it all last evening and then all night without seemingly feeling ill at all. He was clearly very tired having missed one entire night of sleep and then having to go to daycare all day. This is going to be a really long week for him as he is going to have missed …

Linux Memory Monitoring

As a Linux System Administrator one question that I get asked quite often is to look into memory issues. The Linux memory model is rather more complex that many other systems and looking into memory utilization is not always as straightforward as one would hope, but this is for a good reason that will be …

February 10, 2008: Oreo Isn’t Feeling Well

Dominica decided that she was so close to finishing the entire first season of Dexter in a single sitting that she decided to just make a run for it and wrapped up around two in the morning. Oreo got me up in the middle of the night, as expected, for a walk. This always happens …