Author: Alexander Mamchenkov

Apache misbehavior

I don\’t know what is going on wrong with my Apache server for the past couple of weeks. It is slowly increasing the usage of CPU and ends up with 99% of CPU time making system slow. If I stop it, I can steel see some processes alive and I need to use kill -9 to remove them since even killall is not working. After restart the CPU usage is ok, but slowly increasing and I end up with the same 99% in a day period.

Trying to find what is wrong, but can\’t. Logs seem to be ok.

If anyone has at least an idea – share it in comments because I am too tired of watching and restarting the service all the time.

Blog update

I have updated some parts of the blog as promised but I haven\’t finished all I wanted yet. From the changes made:

– update of WP to 1.5.2
– AdSense-Deluxe plugin installed
– AutoBanReferrer plugin installed
– Gallery2 installed (you should be able to see the link at the top menu)
– Some minor changes to the theme

I would also like to notice that pictures in the gallery are far from the best quality due to the facts that:
– I suck as a photographer
– I use a camera built in my PE910 which is 1.28 megapixels and it is not capable of doing pictures of a very high quiality.
– I do not yet get what settings should I use on my camera to make pictures look better

Anyhow, I believe that these pictures are still having some value so I\’d better have them than nothing :)

WordPress Updates

I am planning to update the WordPress, as well as put some more plugins and functionality to the site so it may be possible for the site to misbehave for some time.

Planned:
– update WP 1.5.1.1 to 1.5.2
– install pluggin to manage Google AdSense
– install Gallery2 and try to integrate it in WP with the existing plugins (now I have a small digital cam in my phone and sometime I even do pictures, so I why shouldn\’t I post them here)
– install some antispam plugins (I noticed that the site receives more and more spam nowadays)
– check some other possible/interesting stuff to add :)

Web applications idea

There are a lot of talks on the web about Google + Sun collaborations and the possibility of having them building web office suite or something of the kind for the past few days.

I am not quite sure yet on how this is possible to be done (although I have no doubt that it can be done), but overall I definitely like the idea of having some kind of web applications (or service based stuff) around.

From my view it will ease the work of system administrators and provide users with more flexibility. I am not really thinking of hosting office documents somewhere on [let\’s say] Google, but I would like to see some kind of nice solutions on having all these services running somewhere on the LANs web server so that administrators do not need to change much on workstations :)

I know that this concept is know and can be done by many means (terminal servers is one way), but I think something new here won\’t do any harm :)

ReactOS

While reading some news on the web found out this nice project: ReactOS. It is an Open Source analog of M$ Windows, compatible with drivers and other stuff. I do not know if I will ever make some use of it since I run Linux everywhere where have a choice, but still – quite cool stuff and I really think that there are many people who can make tons of use from this project, especially if the project will be developed far further :)

P.S.: downloading the image of SVN release to check on VMWare – I am very curious :)