I have not written an article in a while, I partially blame it on
the World Cup and my day job. The time has come to share some of
my recent experiences with a neat project to provide several
teams internally with current MySQL backups.
When faced with these types of challenges is my first step is to
look into OSS packages and how can they be combined into an
actual solution. It helps me understand the underlying
technologies and challenges.
ZRM BackupI have reviewed Zmanda's
Recovery Manager for MySQL Community Edition in the Fall 2008
issue of MySQL magazine. It remains one of my favorite
backup tools for MySQL since it greatly simplifies the task and
configuration of MySQL backups taking care of most of the
details. Its flexible reporting capabilities came in handy for
this project as …
Build notes and Tuning tips for Solaris
lighttpd seems to be increasingly popular, so much so that netcraft has started tracking it's use on production websites. I've spent some time building, tuning and running simple performance stress tests on lighttpd 1.4.15 on Solaris and thought I'd share what I learnt.
Building lighttpd
My build of lighttpd uses the openldap library from Cool Stack. I also built and installed pcre-7.1 in /opt/coolstack using the following script :
#!/bin/sh
INSTALLDIR=/opt/coolstack
CFLAGS="-fast -xipo -xtarget=generic"
make distclean
./configure --prefix=$INSTALLDIR CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
make
make install
…
Build notes and Tuning tips for Solaris
lighttpd seems to be increasingly popular, so much so that netcraft has started tracking it's use on production websites. I've spent some time building, tuning and running simple performance stress tests on lighttpd 1.4.15 on Solaris and thought I'd share what I learnt.
Building lighttpd
My build of lighttpd uses the openldap library from Cool Stack. I also built and installed pcre-7.1 in /opt/coolstack using the following script :
#!/bin/sh
INSTALLDIR=/opt/coolstack
CFLAGS="-fast -xipo -xtarget=generic"
make distclean
./configure --prefix=$INSTALLDIR CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
make
make install
…
Build notes and Tuning tips for Solaris
lighttpd seems to be increasingly popular, so much so that netcraft has started tracking it's use on production websites. I've spent some time building, tuning and running simple performance stress tests on lighttpd 1.4.15 on Solaris and thought I'd share what I learnt.
Building lighttpd
My build of lighttpd uses the openldap library from Cool Stack. I also built and installed pcre-7.1 in /opt/coolstack using the following script :
#!/bin/sh
INSTALLDIR=/opt/coolstack
CFLAGS="-fast -xipo -xtarget=generic"
make distclean
./configure --prefix=$INSTALLDIR CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
make
make install
…