Linux performance analysis

Create a 1 GB file to swap to (we have sufficient space on / on this machine. Use a different partition if necessary)

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swapfile bs=1M count=1024

If you prefer 2GB swap, chose count=2048, 4GB: count=4096

C...

We have observed Lenovo laptops with nvidia graphics losing performance after they have been in use for a few minutes. While we have not been able to pinpoint exactly what triggered the performance loss, we have found it mostly correlated with hig...

Creating Nagios Config with puppet

Let's have a look at the classic way of managing Nagios configuration with exported Puppet resources.
Here is [a good article about the topic](https://www.ericholzbach.net/blog/automating-nagios-with-puppet-a...

I'm creating certificate requests with this command:

openssl req -new -out www.example.com.csr -keyout www.example.com.key -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes

When I try to upload the certificate to AWS IAM I get this error:

$ aws iam upload-se...

1. Install and configure the AWS Command Line Interface

2. Show existing certificates to test if the AWS Cli is working:

   $ aws iam list-server-certificates
   {
     "ServerCertificateMetadataList": [...
   

example

We want to make the following firewall rule to be applyable to different network interfaces (for e.g. different environments) with just one variable:

firewall { "010-reject-port":
  ensure      => present,
  dport       => [ 80...

If you try to restart you may encouter the problem that your networking connection gets shutdown but not start again. Here is the right way to restart networking on FreeBSD:

service netif restart && service routing restart