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emacs elpa load packages
I am using emacs24, and I started using elpa to download the packages to ~/.emacs.d/elpa folder.
How can I load these packages?
For instance, I have tried (see below) for rainbow-delimiter but it ...
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Why “uninterruptible sleep” is not counted as “IDLE”?
When I run top -bi, where the parameter -i means "ignore idle processes", the resulted list(see below) of processes are either R or D, although there're S processes at that time.
So, why ...
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Any utility to find source of system load / load average for a certain period?
By running top, htop, uptime, etc. we can see the load average as three values indicating the average load for the last 1/5/15 minutes (well not really, but that isn't the question here).
Sometimes ...
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why does it take long for the bash prompt to return on high system load [closed]
When my server experiences high load and I run a command, there is a long delay after the command has finished before I get the prompt again. Any idea what is causing this?
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reserve resources for admin console
My servers is often almost DOS'ed by crawlers. I have not yet managed to figure out what exactly is responsible for the high load. CPU, memory and disk IO are not at the limit (could be network ...
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Detailed Per-Process Profiling
I am looking for a way to profile a single process including time spent for CPU, I/O, memory usage over time and optionally system calls.
I already know callgrind offering some basic profiling ...
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Throttling web crawlers
My website is being DoS'ed by Google webspiders. Google is welcome to index my site, but sometimes it is querying a tagcloud on my site faster than my webserver can produce the results, making my ...
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all type of image files stop loading
I am working on my newly installed wine. when i tried to run a game , called "road rash" through wine, my screen resolution got change and after few seconds game stop working. Then my most of image ...
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Alternative for `sleep seconds` that takes system load into account?
So I develop my server app and some client apps for it. After each rebuild I start my server (which tends to load qup all services for something like 2 seconds) and then I start my clients... So his ...
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How does load average work with modern CPU's?
My understanding of load average lead me to be quite shocked with my current system. The CPU in my workstation is an i7 with hyperthreading enabled, and cat /proc/cpuinfo produces 4 'cpu's.
That all ...
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Linux Router Load Benchmark
What tools and methods can be used to stress test a Linux-based router/proxy? On the router Squid, Apache Modproxy and Privoxy are installed. The purpose of the stress test is to determine which proxy ...
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Why is kworker consuming so many resources on Linux 3.0.0-12-server?
Last Friday I upgraded my Ubuntu server to 11.10, which now runs with a 3.0.0-12-server kernel. Since then the overall performance has dropped dramatically. Before the upgrade the system load was ...
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Get load average excluding niced processes
Is there a way to return the load averages, excluding any load caused by nice'd processes?
We have a load balancing mechanism in place that checks the load of multiple Linux servers, and submits a ...
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Program to test CPU load and process priority
I am running some test on Amazon EC2 instances and we want to make the CPU always busy at above 80%.
What I have is a program main that needs to run in high priority and I want to launch another ...
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Understanding top and load average
I'm observing a high load average an certain machine (about 9) in all three load fields. I understand load as the number of processes in state "run" / currently desiring CPU time. Am I correct at ...
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Why isn't a straightforward 1/5/15 minute moving average used in Linux load calculation?
Until recently i thought the load average (as shown for example in top) was a moving average on the n last values of the number of process in state "runnable" or "running". And n would have been ...
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How do I get sar to show for the previous day?
on our servers, typing sar show's the system load statistics for today starting at midnight, is it possible to show yesterdays statistics?
