Category Archives: Performance

usability as blocker? of course. – UbuntuOne and the bandwith limit

Recently I ran into a missing feature of the UbuntuOne client. If you don’t know yet: UbuntuOne is the Canonical driven online space for storing and saving data. It’s a commercial service with a free entry level like similar offers … Continue reading

Posted in Launchpad, Network, Performance, Ubuntu, Usability | 6 Comments

my package of the day – htop as an alternative top

“top” is one of those programs, that are used quite often but actually nobody talks about. It just does its job: showing statistics about memory, cache and cpu consumption, listing processes and so on. Actually top provides you some more … Continue reading

Posted in Allgemein, Debian, HardyHeron, Linux, PackeOfTheDay, Performance, Shell, Ubuntu | 7 Comments

my package of the day: irqbalance

Maybe you are in the nice situation of running machine with multiple cpu cores having to crunch a lot of numbert or providing network daemons. Multiple cpu cores can boost your performance dramatically but there are, of course, possible issues. … Continue reading

Posted in Debian, Kernel, Linux, Performance, Ubuntu | 17 Comments

fast installation of apc php optimizer/cache on Debian / Ubuntu

If you want a fast installation of the php apc bytecache/optimizer for PHP5/Apache2, try the following snippet when already running a standard PHP5/Apache2 environment: # install dependencies for compilation $ sudo aptitude install apache2-dev php5-dev build-essential # get current version … Continue reading

Posted in Debian, Performance, Php, Ubuntu | 1 Comment