Archive for January, 2008

Removing news feeds in Horde

If you’ve used newer versions of Horde with Plesk, you have probably noticed the news feed that runs down the left side of the screen. Depending on the types of e-mails you receive, you may get some pretty odd news popping up on the screen.
Luckily, you can remove the news feeds pretty easily. [...]

Sendmail: rejecting connections on daemon MTA: load average: 70

If you’ve ever worked on a server that was being overworked (I know I have), you might see sendmail throw out a message like this one:
Jan 9 14:15:49 mail sendmail[18184]: rejecting connections on daemon MTA: load average: 70
This is sendmail’s way of trying not to contribute to the already high load placed on the server. [...]

MySQLTuner Revision 29 is now available

A new version of MySQLTuner was released tonight to correct some bugs found within revision 26. As usual, you can get a new copy from the MySQLTuner site.
Here are the new features:
» Storage engine counts are shown
In addition to the actual size of the tables stored under each storage engine, there is a table [...]

MySQL Replication: Wrap-up

After a couple of weeks, my MySQL replication series has come to a close. Here’s links to all of the topics that I covered:
Performance
Redundancy
Backups and Data Integrity
Horizontal Data Partitioning
Delayed Slaves
Breakdown
Replication Across an External Network
Upgrading the MySQL Server
Slave Performance
If there’s any other questions that you have, please let me know and I’ll be happy to [...]

MySQLTuner Revision 26 is now available

As some subversion users may have noticed, revision 23 of MySQLTuner was released quietly on Sunday. Thanks to Mike Jackson, a few bugs from revision 23 were smashed today and revision 26 was released this morning.
To pick up the new script, visit the MySQLTuner site.
Here’s some of the new features:
» Shows banner of enabled [...]