Notes from the Ether

After a few months of running RHEL guests on VMWare, we came to the realization that they just don’t maintain their clocks very well.  A little research showed that this is a commong problem in VMWare.  It sounds like it’s attributed to the fact that the machines don’t have access to the “entire” processor … I’m [...]

When I created this most recent batch of webservers, I got a little stingy with the drive space. I skimped on the “/” partition, and as you can see, I’m paying for it now: [root@server ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 2.5G 2.3G 80M 97% / /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol04 29G 9.1G 19G [...]