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Out of memory? Did you upgrade your OS recently? Then carefully have a look at ps -auwx output for memory consumption.

Today I found that initscripts package owned minilogd was eating up almost 70% of the server resources on a VPS running on OpenVZ virtualization. After reading a bit about it on the internet I found that it’s used by syslog and I had to restart syslog service to get the issue sorted out.

Alway make good use of the tools given by Linux to monitor the processes. They will surely help you to knockdown the problem that you’re facing.

Happy Hacking!

It’s really cute to see the new face of gparted on Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex. No issues with NTFS resize. In turn it’s quite fast when compared to earlier resizes which I had done on dozens of laptops.

Above is the picture of Ubuntu Installation wizard paritioning stage. That also has been made colorful.

Ambika soni Officially declared Kannada to be classical language on the eve of Kannada Rajyothsava.

It’s time to celebrate and think why it really took so much time for us to get this status for our language.

Other news sources:

• BREAKING NEWS: Kannada Identified as Classical Language
• Deccan Herald Covers the Story here

Happy Karnataka Rajyotsava

Looks like its taking a while to load my webpages. I have decided to go ahead and optimize my server. Half of the work is done. You might see some interruptions in the service. My apologies for the same. You will be happy to see the website loading faster once I’m done with this.

If you’re running out of RAM, swap and if there is no more room to create a new swap partition, you’re still left with one more option. Create a swapfile. Here are the steps to follow.

1. Determine the size of the new swap file and multiple by 1024 to determine the block size. For example, the block size of a 64 MB swap file is 65536.
2. At a shell prompt as root, type the following command with count being equal to the desired block size:
   dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=65536
3. Setup the swap file with the command:
   mkswap /swapfile
4. To enable the swap file immediately but not automatically at boot time:
   swapon /swapfile
5. To enable it at boot time, edit /etc/fstab to include:
   

   /swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0

   The next time the system boots, it will enable the new swap file.

6. After adding the new swap file and enabling it, make sure it is enabled by viewing the output of the command cat /proc/swaps or free.

Source : Redhat

(image 1) taken at 8:00 am IST from a height of 9,000 km shows the Northern coast of Australia.

-> (image 2) taken at 12:30 pm from a height of 70,000 km shows Australia’s Southern Coast.

ISRO Receives first Image from Chandrayaan Space craft on the way to Moon. First imagery was received by the Indian Deep Space Network (IDSN) at Byalalu after a series of commands issued by Spacecraft Control Centre of ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) at Bangalore. It was later processed by Indian Space Science Data Centre (ISSDC) confirms excellent performance of the Terrain Mapping camera.

Terrain Mapping camera (TMC), one of the payloads on board Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft was successfully operated on October 29, 2008. The camera can take black and white pictures of an object by recording the visible light reflected from it. The instrument has a resolution of about 5 meters.

Read more about this: Chandrayaan-1 Camera Tested