Comment by Daniel Magliola on How can you know what is w3wp.exe doing? (or...
Thank you very much Carlos! This is what I ended up doing to find the one request (A cron we have) that was killing my server every 5 minutes (it took 3.5 minutes to run, so it was almost constantly at...
View ArticleComment by Daniel Magliola on Error importing large MySQL dump file which...
I'll try asking the hosting guys for that, let's see if that does it. That may take a couple of days, though :-( - What confuses me is that i've been able to import other binary dumps from them in the...
View ArticleComment by Daniel Magliola on Can I change a MySQL table back and forth...
Yes, exactly, I know there are things that InnoDB can do and MyIsam can't, but i'm already on MyISAM, and wouldn't start using transactions until I actually get a feel for the new performance profile,...
View ArticleComment by Daniel Magliola on MySQL: Corrupt ARCHIVE table. Help, Please?
Hi, thank you for your answer. How do I check that? (NOTE: Trying to query information_schema.tables sends the CPU to 100% again) :-(
View ArticleComment by Daniel Magliola on MySQL: Corrupt ARCHIVE table. Help, Please?
Sorry I missed this comment. I'd hope last night. My client's supposed to have arranged backups with the hosting company, but I don't know for a fact. I'm hoping to not have to count on Backups,...
View ArticleComment by Daniel Magliola on How long does Linux (by default) cache...
Is running the command "sync" the way to flush the cache? Because if it is, that doesn't seem to be doing it for me. I don't need to flush pending writes to HDD, I need to kill the cache that makes it...
View ArticleComment by Daniel Magliola on How to configure Amazon S3 permissions to host...
Interesting, hadn't found those. Do I need to use CloudFront to use them? Or can I use S3 directly?
View ArticleComment by Daniel Magliola on How can I set up an SFTP server backed by S3...
Thanks for your constructive comment @HopelessN00b. For anyone else that may've been dissuaded from answering by that idea... We've run the math, yes, transferring and holding that amount of...
View ArticleGetting rid of a specific windows update on Windows Server 2008?
I've just moved from Windows Server 2003 to 2008, and I'm having a very annoying experience with Automatic Updates.In Windows 2003, when it "suggested" a package and I chose not to install, it asked...
View ArticleWhy can't I connect to this IIS FTP?
I have a Windows 2003 server where i've configured FTP in IIS.I'm by no means an expert in FTP configuration, and I don't recall any special settings I could've made.This worked initially, but at some...
View ArticleIs it normal to get bandwidth as the first scalability bottleneck with a 100...
I'm stress testing a site that we're making, and we're finding a very surprising result compared to my expectations:Our site starts to load very slow with a few hundred simultaneous people, even though...
View ArticleWeird network interaction between Vista and Ubuntu
I have a network where my WAN (a CableModem) goes into a (dubiously configured) Ubuntu box which acts as the router for the whole company.We recently switched our ISP, and we're getting a very weird...
View ArticleServer 2008 locks me out when not using the machine for 10 minutes after...
I have recently installed Service Pack 2 on my Windows Server 2008 machine (which I use actively for development, and i'm always logged on to).Now, after this installation, when I don't use the machine...
View ArticleAnswer by Daniel Magliola for Server 2008 locks me out when not using the...
Answered here: https://superuser.com/questions/51416/server-2008-locks-me-out-when-not-using-the-machine-for-10-minutes-after-installi/51425#51425
View ArticleAnswer by Daniel Magliola for Finding day of week in batch file? (Windows...
Ok, found an answer...I couldn't find a way using plain BAT files, but if you have access to powershell...@echo offpowershell date > date.txtfind/i "Fri" date.txt > nulif errorlevel 1 goto...
View ArticleSql Server 2008 Backups not quite running
I'm running a server with SQL 2008, and backing up the database with a "regular maintenance plan". (I'm not an expert by far in configuring SQL Server).The execution of this plan is automated by a SQL...
View ArticleDedicated Hosting offering Intel Core 2 Quad @ 6GHz. Is this real?
sorry if this is a very dumb question, but...I just got an offer from a dedicated hosting company, offering me a box with "2 Core 2 Quad processors @ 6GHz"I didn't know we could get 6GHz, and some...
View ArticleAnswer by Daniel Magliola for How can I remove HTTP headers with .htaccess in...
Just replied to my own question...Header unset PragmaHeader unset Last-ModifiedHeader unset Cache-Control
View ArticleAnswer by Daniel Magliola for Linux Cron: Can I displace the runtime by "x"...
DUH, just found it...8,18,28,38,48,58 * * * * /home/blahblahSorry about that.
View ArticleWill SQL 2008 Express still have a 10Gb limit if I use it to open a 2005 MDF...
I have the following situation: I have a production site running on SQL 2005 Express (only because it's free), and it's a reasonably big DB, and i'm always incredibly close to the 4 Gb limit. Every now...
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