HOW TO : Improve Jboss startup times
We run multiple applications in Jboss at my work and one of the applications used to take an inordinate time to come up. A typical application...
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HOW TO : Load/Stress test a Linux based server
We ran into an issue at work recently, which prompted us to do some performance testing on some of our Linux servers. The requirement was to...
HOW TO : Improve performance on Samba
Adding the following options to the [Global] section in the samba (open source software providing windows compatible file sharing for *nix operating systems) will most likely...
{awk} – One Liners
I ran across a cached Google entry for a good collection of awk one liners by Eric Pemant. Since I thought the original site was down,...
HOW TO : Find which interface a particular IP address is configured on
There are a ton of scripts to find how many IP addresses  are configured on a system, but I could not find one, whic would show...
HOW TO : Pass environment variables when using sudo
Say you need to sudo as a particular user and run a command and at the same time you need to pass an environmental variable to...