Linux Memory Statistics
What does Used memory in Linux actually mean and how this concept has changed over the years.
Category: Software
WordPress 5.8.2 Debian packages
After a bit of a delay, WordPress version 5.8.2 packages should be available now. This is a minor update from 5.8.1 which […]
Changing Grafana Legends
A quick tour of label_replace to fix Legend texts in Grafana for Prometheus data sources.
Percent CPU for processes
The ps program gives a snapshot of the processes running on your Unix-like system. On most Linux installations, this will be the ps program from the procps project. What does the %CPU field mean in the output of ps?
Sending data in a signal
The well-known kill system call has been around for decades and is used to send a signal to another process. The most […]
procps-ng 3.3.16
procps-ng version 3.3.16 was released today. Besides some documentation and library updates, there were a few incremental changes. Zombie Hunting with pgrep […]
WordPress 5.2.4
Hot on the heels of WordPress version 5.2.3 which fixed a bunch of stuff we have WordPress 5.2.4 with fixes for six […]
WordPress 5.1.1
The Debian packages for WordPress version 5.1.1 are being updated as I write this. This is a security fix for WordPress that […]
WordPress 5.0.1
While I missed the WordPress 5.0 release, it was only a few more days before there was a security release out. So […]
Odd dependency on Google Chrome
For weeks I have had problems with Google Chrome. It would work very few times and then for reasons I didn’t understand, […]