ulimits and my limits

Even Linux systems have their limits!  One of the systems I manage started throwing a “Too many open files” error in /var/log/messages.  No error is good but this error is fixable.  A little tuning and the error goes away.  On this particular server we were running the Oracle Client and a Java Application, two very […]

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July 1 2012 Linux problems? High CPU/Load? Probably caused by the Leap Second!

(Update posted, see below) As posted in multiple places around the web: Debian /etc/init.d/ntp stop date `date +”%m%d%H%M%C%y.%S”` Red Hat /etc/init.d/ntpd stop date `date +”%m%d%H%M%C%y.%S”` Update: This first manifested itself for us in our Java stacks — all of our … Continue reading

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