Archive for June, 2008

MySQLTuner is now a Fedora 9 package!

Thanks to some work started by Ville Skyttä, MySQLTuner is now included in Fedora 9 repositories:
# cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 9 (Sulphur)
# yum info mysqltuner
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities, refresh-packagekit
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* updates: mirrors.usc.edu
* fedora: mirror.unl.edu
* livna: mirrors.tummy.com
Available Packages
Name : mysqltuner
Arch [...]

MySQL: ERROR 1040: Too many connections

If you run a fairly busy and/or badly configured MySQL server, you may receive something like this when attempting to connect:
# mysql
ERROR 1040: Too many connections
MySQL is telling you that it is handling the maximum connections that you have configured it to handle. By default, MySQL will handle 100 connections simultaneously. This is [...]

MySQLTuner 0.9.1 available for Mandriva users

Thanks to some hard work from Oden Eriksson and Frederik Himpe, MySQLTuner 0.9.1 is available in a Mandriva package.

Rebuilding statistics from previous months on Plesk 8.3

There was a bug in versions of Plesk prior to 8.3 where the AWStats statistics for the previous months were unavailable. It was a bug within Plesk’s AWStat’s implementation, and it was fixed in Plesk 8.3.
However, the fix only corrected the issue moving forward after the upgrade. There was no automated way to [...]

Why I interviewed at Google and stayed at Rackspace

As some of you might know, I interviewed for a position at Google in April of this year. It wasn’t a position that I sought out, but it all came about after I received an e-mail and phone call from a recruiter. Obviously, there’s some things I can’t talk about with regards to [...]