Linux Memory Management

11Feb09

I have 3gbs of memory in my system and a fast processor, yet my system would start choking when I used to much memory so I sat out to fix it.
What I learned is that there’s a setting in /etc/sysctl.conf called vm.swappiness that controls to what level the Linux kernel should use disk based virtual [...]

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Tags: Linux, memory, nautilus, sysctl, vm

GLM Extractor for Tabula Rasa

30Dec08

Now that Tabula Rasa is entering its final death rattle I wanted to make sure I got the soundtrack by Tracy Bush, Curse Mackey and Chris Vrenna with Clint Walsh, so I wrote a small extractor for the GLM format.
Now, as far as I can tell, a GLM file is just a sequence of either [...]

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Tags: Tabula Rasa glm extract python

Hello WordPress!

15Sep08

So, I’m trying out WordPress and have just imported my previous posts from LiveJournal. So far it has been a pretty smooth ride, though I’m still getting used to the dashboard concept vs. the weblog interface, but it already seems much more friendly than LiveJournal, which I never did get the hang of.

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Tags: Hello World, LiveJournal

Windows are for breaking

05Jan08

Automated breakage
Yesterday I wanted to boot into my Windows XP Professional partition to see if Perfect World ran better in Windows than in Wine, but what was this? Windows refused to boot.
Now, this has happened to me before, and I have read lots and lots of post online about the dreaded Mup.sys problem, but this [...]

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Tags: Install, mup.sys, ubuntu, Windows XP