Issue 31: Tuning MySQL
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Articles from ADMIN Issue 31
As system administrators, we deal with a variety of issues, problems, and tasks that face us on a regular basis. Our managers ask us to solve problems with fewer staff. They ask us to "make do" with underpowered systems.
CentOS describes itself as "… a stable, predictable, manageable, and reproducible platform derived from the sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Rockstor is a specialty Linux distro designed to support Btrfs-based network-attached storage (NAS) devices.
News for system administrators around the world.
Six all-in-one Linux server distributions and a NAS system for small businesses and workgroups feature comprehensive feature sets, simple administration, and services. Are these distributions worthwhile?
Abstraction layers are the alpha and omega in the design of complex architectures. The Linux Storage Stack is an excellent example of well-coordinated layers. Access to storage media is abstracted through a unified interface, without sacrificing functionality.
Sometimes, the throughput or response time of your MySQL database does not meet expectations. In this article, we show how you can handle some MySQL performance problems.
As expected, a further release of the PostgreSQL open source database system was launched last fall, offering a number of impressive new features.
The Nginx web server platform is not as well known as another open source web alternative known as Apache, but the fast and frugal Nginx is growing in popularity around the world as web admins contend with increased traffic and the challenges of container and cloud environments. We talked to Nginx CEO Gus Robertson.
Cron is the simplest job scheduler on Unix and Linux systems, but if you are looking for an enterprise-level solution that offers unique, sophisticated sequencing and monitoring functions, schedulix might just fit the bill.
A monitoring system helps avoid unpleasant surprises during operations, but admins need to modify existing solutions to fit a containerized world.
