Fibtitious

Fixing the CPU-hungry Bind name server

I administer a number of web servers, mostly CentOS and RedHat Enterprise Linux with cPanel and Web Host Manager. A while back our primary name server (a CentOS server with cPanel & WHM) gave problems when restarting the name service (Bind). The problem seemed like one of insufficient capacity. I was a bit surprised that this could be because we were serving only about 5,000 DNS zones, but nevertheless went ahead with an “upgrade”... In my infinite wisdom, I used the /scripts/ulimitnamed sc...

The mystery of the disappearing TortoiseSVN icon overlays

Using a 64-bit version of Windows 7, I noticed that some of my programs did not display the TortoiseSVN icon overlays and lacked the SVN context menus. A bit of sleuthing revealed the (somewhat) obvious: 32-bit application require the 32-bit version of TortoiseSVN to display to integrate with TortoiseSVN. According to the TortoiseSVN website, one can safely install both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions side-by-side. The 64-bit version will provide the necessary services to 64-bit applications (in...