“ls” Command Slow on Very Large Directories
I had some problems with listing files on linux from a directory with pretty many files in it (around 700.000 files now and still counting). Doing a simple ls on the directory never returned (or at least I killed it after a couple of hours waiting). Now, actually I did know this could be a [...]
January 25, 2011
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Tags: gpfs, linux, unix · Posted in: Operating Systems
Wine Slow to Start – Fontconfig Issue
Here is a solution to a problem we’ve had with wine that someone might find helpful, in case they experienced the same. Part of a web application we’ve build is dispatching some calculation functionality to a windows based cmdline program. Because we are hosting the application on linux, we are using wine for execution of [...]
November 11, 2010
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Tags: fontconfig, linux, wine · Posted in: Operating Systems, Programming
Applet Caching and the Control Panel on Linux
The Sun Java applet plugin will cache applets outside the browser cache, in its own cache directory. Clearing the cache in the browser will not clear the applet cache, which can be irritating when you need to be sure, that a fresh copy of a given applet is loaded. What you need to do, is [...]
August 25, 2008
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Tags: applet, Java, linux · Posted in: Operating Systems
Strigi is Eating My Resources
Some time ago, I noticed strigi in the application menu on my kubuntu box at work and I thaught: “Hey what is that, I need to try it”, and went ahead enabling the strigi daemon. Today I found myself wondering why a simple maven build of mine was taking so long time. I launched top [...]
January 29, 2008
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Tags: linux · Posted in: Operating Systems