Category Archives: gentoo
Munin-cron overlap fix
Recently I’ve migrated my munin instance onto a Linode virtual machine. Having fewer resources was a potential source of problems. One of the problems that I ran into early on was that sometimes a munin-cron run would still be executing … Continue reading
Part III: Munin[node] in cfEngine
At work we use munin and cfEngine extensively, therefore it is accurate to assume that we have a tight-knit setup that allows us to scale munin-node to all hosts in cfEngine, and have the munin-master configured through it as well. … Continue reading
Part II: The Munin-master
Hopefully you’ve read the first part(Munin-Node), and have one or more nodes already configured. It’s alright if the munin-node is running on the same machine as the munin-master. The master is more of a pain to set up than the … Continue reading
Part I: Setting up Munin-Node
After becoming increasingly frustrated with cacti’s lack of sane repeatable configuration and extensibility I began to explore other options. Munin showed the most promise and compatibility with many of the services we run at the OSL, such as memcached and … Continue reading
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Gentoo on the Fujitsu P1620
Recently I picked up a Fujitsu P1620 on eBay. I’ve grown to really appreciate all the hardware in it, and consider it grade ‘A’ hardware, except for a few gotchas in Linux. This serves as a document for those who … Continue reading
Tiling Window Managers: A Comparison
Over the past few years I’ve been trying to find the perfect window manager for me. Some have had the correct features, but terrible behavior. Some turn me off with painful programming languages. Others have horrible authors who are bat-shit … Continue reading