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 upgraded my three old Linksys WRT54G 2.2 WIFI APs to the latest OpenWRT release 10.03 codenamed Backfire, previously I was running Kamikaze 8.09. The upgrades went almost perfectly smooth (the 2.6 kernel using the b43 driver apparently still doen… more »

Blockers, blockers blockers. All KDE 4.3.5 packages blocked the new 4.4 ebuilds. Some propose to remove 4.3 KDE entries from world and world_sets but it was not there. So I ended up creating a binary buildhost to minimize downtime for my laptop. Also wit… more »

For a long time I've been sharing the Portage tree over NFS to my virtual servers. However NFS is not exactly firewall friendly and feels a bit dated. So I've been looking for other alternatives. Today I stumbled across GlusterFS and took it for a spin.… more »

I just managed to reboot one of the Xen servers I still admin, just by creating another domain:-/Running with old versions of xen-sources results in problems as seen above and with newer udev versions. For reference to those who havne't yet migrated… more »