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Category: Opensource

Don't emulate HPET with KVM

Permalink 2010-07-02 20:42, by jaervosz, Categories: General, Gentoo Tips, Gentoo, Universe/English, Opensource , Tags: gentoo, ksm, kvm, server, time
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 »
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OpenWRT 10.03 Backfire

Permalink 2010-06-10 11:38, by jaervosz, Categories: General, Gentoo, Universe/English, Opensource , Tags: openwrt
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 »
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B2evolution antispam list

Permalink 2010-03-01 08:39, by jaervosz, Categories: General, Gentoo Tips, Universe/English, Opensource , Tags: antispam, b2evolution
Before I implemented comment captchas on this blog I was flodded with comment spam. Captchas helped a lot! Like removing 95+% of all comment spam, however some still gets through. Deleting a spam comment now and then have irritated me greatly, but until… more »
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Transcoding LATM packed HE-AAC audio with MythTV

Permalink 2010-02-23 09:01, by jaervosz, Categories: General, Gentoo Tips, Universe/English, Opensource, Mythtv , Tags: hack, mythtv, transcode, userjob
Since some of the new Danish digital TV channels are using the HE-AAC audio codec which is not widely supported (ie. on my Pop Corn Hour) I had to transcode the recordings before being able to watch it on my frontend.For this I use the following scri… more »
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Gentoo KDE 4.4 upgrade a day after

Permalink 2010-02-13 09:00, by jaervosz, Categories: General, Gentoo, Universe/English, Opensource , Tags: gentoo, kde4
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 »
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