For quite some time I've experienced quite high CPU load on my KVM server with an AMD Athlon X2 BE-2400 CPU. All KVM instances used 10-15% CPU time more or less constantly. Idle load was around the 1.5-3 range (reaching over 160 with dynticks).I've t… more »

Today I tried upgrading from gentoo-sources-2.6.32-r7 to -r8 on my MythTV server and within minutes I got the usual dmesg output: DiB0070 I2C write failed AFAIR it's from my TerraTec T5 USB receiver (I also have a Hauppauge Nova-T PCI card in t… more »

Last week I used a lot of time trying to trace down my puppet clients dying at some point. I could run Puppet ten times without any problems, but suddenly it would just hang without any error message.It turned out to by Ruby Bug #2739 and after apply… more »

Puppet is a very nice tool to do a lot of cool stuff, but sometimes it spews out error messages that seems a bit odd to the non Ruby hacker. Ie. if your puppetmaster is down you'll get the following with puppet-0.25.4-r1:err: Could not retrieve c… more »

I'm serving my Mythweb from Lighttpd, and while hacking it a bit I discovered that Lighttpd doesn't log Perl errors to the standard lighttpd error log. It appears that versions after 1.4.19 doesn't allow CGIs to write to the error file.I worked aroun… more »