Replace MySQL with MiriaDB on CentOS 6

Last modified: [last-modified] I’m running CentOS 6.3 64-bit and have been for a little while. I decided I wanted to swap out MySQL 5.1.x with MiriaDB 5.3.x. Why? Because I can. Plus I’ve read a bit and it sounds like MiriaDB is better optimized than MySQL. Also Oracle is evil. These instructions are based off … Read more

RHEL5.8 freezing during large NFS copy operations

Update This issue appears to be resolved as of kernel 2.6.18-308.4.1.el5 Original Article We have a few Redhat Enterprise Linux Servers (5.8 64-bit) that perform some nightly backups by copying a large amount of data via NFS to another RHEL server. Since upgrading these servers to RHEL 5.8 we’ve run into a problem where shortly … Read more